Wit & Wisdom

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:00 am

100,000 sperm and you were the fastest?

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:18 am

Behind every successful man is an exhausted woman.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:14 pm

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

Alexander Dumas,quoted in the Johannesburg Business day

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:25 pm

There is no tragedy as tragic as combining high mentality with low morality.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:33 am

"I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me."

Winston Churchill

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:03 am

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then some people must really love the church.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:36 pm

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Actor John Barrymore,quoted in the Portland,Maine Press Herald

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:40 pm

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:14 am

"That to live by one manâ€™s will became the cause of all menâ€™s misery."

Richard Hooker

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:39 am

No man should be angry at what is true.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:57 am

Its hard to argue against cynics--they always sound smarter than optimist because they have so much evidence on their side.

Journalist Molly Ivins-quoted in Psychology ToDay

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:13 pm

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Rainer Maria Rilke,quoted in Slate.com

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:58 pm

Words are bullets,and should be used sparingly,aimed towards a target.

Army Col.Dick Hallock,quoted in the Columbus,Georgia Ledger-Enquirer

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:44 am

"Lost time is never found again."

Benjamin Franklin

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:41 am

It ain't what you don't know that gets you;it's the things you know that ain't so.

Mark Twain,quoted in The Wall Street Journal

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:38 am

It is better to be despised for the right than praised for the wrong.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:07 am

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

Robert Frost

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:06 am

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

H.L. Menken,quoted in the Charleston,S.C.,City Paper

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:44 pm

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:26 am

This world is a comedy to those who think,a tragedy to those who feel.

Horace Walpole,quoted in ARTnews