Wit & Wisdom

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:41 am

Doubt is thought and thought is life.Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

Novelist Albert Guerard,quoted in The New York Sun

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:29 am

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for his country.

English diplomat Henry Wotton,quoted in the London Times

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:01 am

One is always at home in one's past.

Vladimir Nabokov,quoted in the Boston Review

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:56 am

I do not believe that Friends are necessarily the people you like the best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Peter Ustinov,quoted in the Kitchener Waterloo,Ontario,Record

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 7:49 pm

Support bacteria, they're the only culture some people have.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:56 pm

You will know your enemies because they're the ones that interfere with the work.

Betty Davis, quoted in Time Out New York

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:08 am

The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required on it.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:32 am

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka ,quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:26 am

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Journalist Sydney J. Harris,quoted in the Charlotte, N.C. observer

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:11 am

Climate is what you expect,weather is what you get.

Author Robert Heinlein,quoted in the Charlotte,N.C. Observer

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:24 am

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Finland. Now Santa Claus is missing.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:40 am

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

Mark Twain,quoted in the Adrian, Michigan, Daily Telegram

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:27 am

There is nothing so powerful as truth--and often nothing so strange.

Daniel Webster,quoted in the Lowell, Mass.,Sun

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:21 am

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best,you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham,quoted in the Associated Press

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:02 am

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Publisher Nicholas Ling, quoted in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:04 am

never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Poet Kimberly Johnson, quoted in the Charlotte, N.C. Observer

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:28 am

Success always occurs in private and failure in full view.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:29 am

Some people are only alive because it is illegal to shoot them.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:57 am

Life is not long, and too much of it should not be spent in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Samuel Johnson,quoterd in The New Criterion

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:27 am

The e-mail of the species is deadlier than the mail.

English comedian Stephen Fry,quoted in the London Independent