Wit & Wisdom

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:54 pm

I got a sweater for Christmas. I really wanted a screamer or a moaner.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:18 pm

What's the difference between neurotic and eccentric? How much money you make.

Columnist Jason Love, quoted in The Denver Post.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:32 am

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Author William Feather,quoted in United Press International

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:09 am

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Richard Nixon, quoted in the Edmonton Journal

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:09 am

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

Peter Ustinov, quoted in Australia's South-West News

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:19 am

The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.

James Richardson, quoted in The Washington Post

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:19 am

Every generation laughs at the old fashion, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau, quoted in the London Independent

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:57 am

Art is moral passion married to enterainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Author Rita Mae Brown, quoted in the Montreal Gazette

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:39 am

The discontended man finds no easy chair.

Benjamin Franklin, quoted in the New Yorker

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:43 am

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.

John Wayne,quoted on ESPN

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:43 am

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Hubert Humphrey,quoted in the Lebanon, Pa. Daily News

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:52 am

The mind is always the dupe of the heart.

French statesman Francois de la Rochefoucauld, quoted in The Washington Post

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:29 am

The wise person does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires to be honored by all. He allows you to know him but not to comprehend him.

Spanish Gracian y Morales, quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:13 am

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butler, quoted in the Columbia, Mo.,Daily Tribune

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:47 pm

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Doris Day, quoted in Newsday

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:02 am

He that best understands the world, least likes it.

Benjamin Franklin quoted, in the New Yorker

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:02 am

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a d___ fool about it.

W.C. Fields,quoted in the London Times

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:14 am

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everbody's talking too much to pay attension to what anyone is saying.

P.J. O'Rourke, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:53 am

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Poet Alexander Smith, quoted in Brides

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:05 am

The most beautiful moment of love is when you have the illusion that it will last forever; the worst is when you realize that it has already lasted too long.

Author Roberto Gervaso,quoted in The Washington Post