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Wit & Wisdom

Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:08 am
by noreply66
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade

French essayist Charles Peguy,quoted in the London Observer

Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:31 pm
by noreply66
A man may take to drinking because he feels himself to be a failure,but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.


George Orwell,quoted in National Review Online

Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:10 pm
by tabasco
I'll continue to drink to see how much I can fail. LOL

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:56 am
by noreply66
Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Jimmy Buffett Quoted in the Denver Rocky Mountain News

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:58 am
by noreply66
I hate to spread rumors,but what else can one do with them.

Model Amanda Lear,quoted in the London Daily Mail

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:35 am
by Super Mario
God gave us two ears and one mouth because if he wanted us
to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear

Anyomous

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:09 am
by noreply66
If you really want to hurt your parents,and you don't have the nerve to be homosexual,the least you can do is go into the arts.

Kurt Vonnegut,quoted in the London Sunday Telegraph

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:19 pm
by noreply66
Any idiot can face a crisis.it is the day-to-day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhow,quoted in Time Out New York

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:00 pm
by noreply66
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer,a pervert,and a drug addict,all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

P.J.O'Rourke,quoted in Cigar Aficionado

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:38 am
by noreply66
What's the difference between a pop star and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist.

Madonna,quoted in the San Antonio Express-News

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:36 pm
by noreply66
Government is not reason,it is not elpquence,it is force.Like fire,it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington,quoted in The Denver Post

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:26 pm
by noreply66
Teaching is not a lost art,but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Cultural historian Jacques Barzun,quoted in the Charlotte,N.C.,Observer

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:05 pm
by hdm1903
"think Not what your city can do for you. Think What YOU can do for your city"

JFK ( before running for House of Representives)

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:50 am
by noreply66
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Gloria Steinem

quoted in the Detroit News

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:20 am
by noreply66
Temperament is temper that is too old to spank.

Actress Charlotte Greemwood,quoted in the Associated press

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:24 am
by Super Mario
try and try, and try, and when you get tired, try agian

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:20 pm
by noreply66
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think

Physicist Niels Bohr,quoted in the Montreal Gazette

Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:22 pm
by noreply66
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping

Drama critic Kenneth Tynan,quoted in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:03 pm
by noreply66
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.quoted in The Hartford Courant

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:13 pm
by noreply66
The first human who hurles an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud,quoted in the Montreal Gazette