Wit & Wisdom

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:08 am

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade

French essayist Charles Peguy,quoted in the London Observer

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:31 pm

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

tabasco · Post by **tabasco** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:10 pm

I'll continue to drink to see how much I can fail. LOL

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:56 am

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Jimmy Buffett Quoted in the Denver Rocky Mountain News

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:58 am

I hate to spread rumors,but what else can one do with them.

Model Amanda Lear,quoted in the London Daily Mail

Super Mario · Post by **Super Mario** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:35 am

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

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:09 am

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

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:19 pm

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

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:00 pm

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

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:38 am

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

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:36 pm

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

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:26 pm

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

hdm1903 · Post by **hdm1903** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:05 pm

"think Not what your city can do for you. Think What YOU can do for your city"

JFK ( before running for House of Representives)

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:50 am

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Gloria Steinem

quoted in the Detroit News

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:20 am

Temperament is temper that is too old to spank.

Actress Charlotte Greemwood,quoted in the Associated press

Super Mario · Post by **Super Mario** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:24 am

try and try, and try, and when you get tired, try agian

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:20 pm

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think

Physicist Niels Bohr,quoted in the Montreal Gazette

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:22 pm

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping

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

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:03 pm

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.quoted in The Hartford Courant

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:13 pm

The first human who hurles an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud,quoted in the Montreal Gazette