Wit & Wisdom

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:30 pm

"A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch."

Hermione Gingold

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:12 am

It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial cost and blamed it on the cost of living.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:16 am

"Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for."

Ogden Nash

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:59 am

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Bo Derek,quoted in the Kansas City Star

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:11 am

I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:45 pm

people seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson,quoted in the Montreal Gazette

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:46 pm

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee,and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh,quoted in The Book Reporter

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:15 am

The whole world is our dining room, but be careful: it is also our garbage can."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:19 am

The young and the old have all the answers. Those in between are stuck with all the questions.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:21 am

The world is made of stories,not of atoms.

Poet Muriel Rukeyser,quoted in the Philadephia Inquirer

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:31 am

There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

George Bernard Shaw

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:04 am

The meaning of earthly existence lies not,as we have grown used to thinking,in our prosperity but in the development of our souls.

Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,quoted in The American Spectator

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:48 am

"Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body."

Jeanine Larmoth

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:07 am

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

Author Diana Trilling,quoted in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:40 pm

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:10 pm

"Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty."

Joe E. Lewis

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:40 am

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."

Dylan Thomas

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:57 am

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

Novelist Margret Mitchell,quoted in the Financial Times

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:12 am

A person is what he thinks about all day..

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:24 am

A good marrage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

German poet Rainer Maria Rilke,quoted in Bride's magazine