Wit & Wisdom

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:40 am

Remember half the people you know are below average.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:24 pm

However rich and powerful you may seem,you always need to keep your suitcase packed.

Barbara Amiel,quoted in the London Daily Mail

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:24 pm

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:35 pm

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin,quoted in the San Jose Mercury News

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:37 am

Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:34 pm

An ounce of history is worth a pound of logic.

Oliver Wendall Holmes.quoted in Huffingtonpost

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:13 pm

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority,but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelins,quoted in The Washington Post

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:54 am

There are countless people who are reservoirs of learning yet never have a thought.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:20 am

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore,quoted in the Lewiston,Maine,Sun Journal

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:39 pm

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:43 pm

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Margaret Thatcher,quoted in the Raleigh,N.C. News & Observer

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:15 am

100,000 sperm and you were the fastest?

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:37 am

The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:41 am

"The American Indians found out what happens
when you don't control immigration."

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:06 am

The future is already here.It's just not very evenly distributed.

William Gibson,quoted in The Austin American-Statesman

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:51 am

Two blondes walk into a building. You'd think at least one of them would have seen it.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:23 am

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

Gloria Steinem,quoted in the Jamestown,N.Y.,Post Journal

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:44 am

The latest telephone poll taken by the office of the Governor of Texas
asked whether people who live in Texas think illegal immigration is a
serious problem:

a). 35% of respondents answered: "Yes, it is a serious problem."

b). 65% of respondents answered: "No es una problema serio."

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:23 am

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:53 pm

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened,but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace,like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson.quoted in the Fayettevlle, N.C. Observer