Wit & Wisdom

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:20 am

My mind is like a steel trap, rusty and illegal in 37 states.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:35 pm

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Bill Gates,quoted in the London Mirror

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:59 am

My hockey mom can beat up your soccer mom.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:13 am

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Henry Kissinger, quoted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:36 pm

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible.

Author David Brin,quoted in the Bangladesh Daily Star

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 8:35 pm

Multitasking means screwing up several things at once.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 7:55 am

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. Author Doris lessing,quoted in the Charlotte, N.C. observer

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:05 pm

Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Author Margret Mitchell, quoted in the Financial Times

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:30 pm

Impulses we attempt to strangle only develop stronger muscles.

Poet Yahia Labaidi,quoted in the New York observer

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:07 pm

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Williams James, quoted in The New York Times

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:47 pm

Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.

Dennis Miller,Quoted in The Denver Post

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:00 am

More hay, Trigger? No thanks, Roy, I'm stuffed!

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:23 pm

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thought on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes,quoted in the London Independent

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 4:40 am

Trouble is only opportunity in work cloths

American industrialist Henry J. Kaiser,quoted in the Newark, N.J. Star-Ledger

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:59 pm

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Ogden Nash,quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-gazette

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:00 pm

In youth we learn in age we understand.

Austrian novelist Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, quoted in the Charlotte, N.C. , Observer

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:21 am

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

James Joyce,quoted in the economist

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 7:28 am

It's not whether you win or lose,
but how you place the blame.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:06 am

Experience is like tail-lights on a boat,which illuminate where we have been when we should be focusing on where we should be going.

John F. Kennedy, quoted in The New Republic.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 3:05 pm

You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor
without holding on.