Wit & Wisdom

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:11 am

"If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry."

Anton Chekov

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:15 am

Courtship makes a man spoon, but it's matrimony that makes him fork over.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:08 pm

When ideas fail,words come in very handy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,quoted in the Bismarck,N.D.,Tribune

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:43 am

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:00 am

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: Where there is compassion even the most poisonous impluses remain relatively harmless.

Philosopher Eric Hoffer,quoted in the Charlotte,N.C. Observer

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:54 am

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:34 pm

"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."

Oscar Levant

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:35 am

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."

Carl Sandburg

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:52 pm

It is the difference between men and women,not the sameness,that creates the tension and the delight.

Ecologist Edward Abbey,quoted in the Barre-Montpelier,Vt., Times Argus

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:06 am

Every revolutionary idea evokes three stages of reaction:

1) I't completely impossible
2) It's possible but it's not worth doing
3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Arthur C. Clarke, quoted in the London Times

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:34 pm

Prayer is our highest privilege, our gravest responsibility, and greatest power God has put into our hands.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:50 am

A little boy was overheard praying:

"Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it.

I'm having a real good time like I am."

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:43 am

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

James Thurber,quoted in the Buffalo News

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:03 am

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:38 am

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson.quoted in Computerworld

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:00 am

After the christening of his baby brother in church,

Jason sobbed all the way home in the back seat of the car.

His father asked him three times what was wrong.

Finally, the boy replied,

"That preacher said he wanted us brought up in a Christian home,

and I wanted to stay with you guys."

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:53 pm

The best way to teach character is to have it around the house.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:13 am

A couple is lying in bed. The man says, "I am going to make you the happiest
woman in the world."

The woman replies, "I'll miss you..."

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:43 am

^^^^

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

British author Norman Douglas,quoted in The New York Times

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:06 am

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.