Wit & Wisdom

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:36 am

Better to fight for something than live for nothing,

George S. Patton,quoted in the Newark,N.J. Star-Ledger

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:37 am

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut,quoted in the Denver Post

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 6:53 am

Plan to be spontaneous, tomorrow.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:06 am

There is one thing worse than the cant of patriotism,and that is the recant of patriotism.

British politician Lord John Russell,quoted in the London Times

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:07 pm

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage--he won't encounter many rivals in his love.

18th -century scientist George Christoph Lichtenberg,quoted in the Financial Times

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:19 am

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:18 am

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Virginia Woolf,quoted in Forbes

USAF_Defender23 · Post by **USAF_Defender23** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:44 pm

Robert A. Heinlein:

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:09 am

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:34 am

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action,where it often substitutes for both.

Author John Andrew Holmes,quoted in the Montreal Gazette

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:15 pm

Think wrongly if you please,but in all cases, think for yourself.

Dramatist Gotthold Lessing,quoted in the Newark, N.J. Star-Ledger

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:17 pm

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

Robert Louis Stevenson,quoted in the Canadian Broadcast News

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:41 am

What do you call a drug ring in Cincinnati ?

A huddle.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:44 am

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

P.J. O'Rourke,quoted in the Edmonton Journal

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:05 am

Life has taught me to think,but thinking has not taught me how to live.

Russian author Alexander Herzen;quoted in the Coshocton,Ohio,Tribune

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:39 am

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Diplomat George Wildman Ball, quoted in the Johannesburg Business Day

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:39 pm

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense,once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Baldwin,quoted in the Chicago Defender

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:18 am

Suffering isn't ennobling,recovery is.

Christian N. Barnard,quoted in the New York Times

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:52 am

Pessimism, when you get used to it,is just as agreeable as optimism.

Enoch Arnold Bennett,quoted in United Press International

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:49 am

The First step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Ben Stein,quoted in the New York Sun