Wit & Wisdom

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:01 am

It's not what we take up but what we give up that makes us rich....

RiverRatRay · Post by **RiverRatRay** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:02 am

You can take it or leave it but I would rather take it.

RRR :lol:

Post by **noreply66** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:55 pm

Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young.Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.

W.H. Auden,quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Post by **noreply66** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:53 am

Behind the door of every contented,happy man there ought to be someone standing with a little hammer and continually reminding him with a knock that there are unhappy people.

Anton Chekbov,quoted in The New York Times

Post by **noreply66** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:19 pm

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway,quoted in the London Independent

Post by **noreply66** » Thu May 11, 2006 1:49 pm

Cloths make the man.naked people have little or no influence in society.

Mark Twain,quoted in the Vacaville,Calf,.Reporter

Post by **noreply66** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:32 am

Life is one long process of getting old.

Samuel Butler,quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Post by **noreply66** » Fri May 12, 2006 3:10 pm

An intellectual snub is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather,quoted in The Vancouver Sun

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:15 am

Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:39 am

If Wiley E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?

Post by **noreply66** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:30 am

Forgive your enemies but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy,quoted in the London Times

Post by **noreply66** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:32 pm

If liberty means anything at all,it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell,quoted in the Chattanooga, Tenn.,Times Free Press.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue May 16, 2006 8:26 am

Storytelling reveals meaning,without committing the error of defining it.

Philosopher Hannab Arendt, quoted in the Yukon News

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue May 16, 2006 8:33 am

Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. (keep this in
mind if you are one of those grouches).

Post by **noreply66** » Tue May 16, 2006 8:22 pm

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Art critic Robert Hughes,quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal

Post by **noreply66** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:19 am

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell,quoted by syndicated columnist Liz Smith

Super Mario · Post by **Super Mario** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:27 am

Whatever goes up, must come down
If so then wear a hard-hat

SM

Super Mario · Post by **Super Mario** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:29 am

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade
If life gives you oranges, trade them for lemons
and make more lemonade

SM

Post by **noreply66** » Thu May 18, 2006 2:36 pm

Comman sense always speaks too late

Raymond Chandler,quoted in the Charlotte,N.C.Observer

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri May 19, 2006 7:36 am

Keep learning: Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,
whatever. Never let the brain get idle. "An idle mind is the devil's
workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!