Wit & Wisdom

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:39 am

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tradgedy:the passage of time.

Simone Weil,quoted in The New York Times

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:10 pm

The person who knows everything has a lot to learn.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:27 am

My wife isn't very bright. The other day she was at the store, and just as
she was heading for our car,someone stole it. I said, "Did you see the guy that did it?" She said, "No, but I got the license plate."

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:41 am

-now that was funny :lol:

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:44 am

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

German dramatist Gotthold Lessing,quoted in the Spokane Spokesman Review

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:10 pm

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs, cutting hair............................and on SEOPS. :roll:

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:58 am

You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:13 am

Truth is not a diet but a condiment.

Novelist and poet Christopher Morley,quoted in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:49 pm

A little philosphy inclines men's minds to atheism, but depth in philosphy brings men's mind's to religeon.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:26 am

It is by logic we prove,but by intuition we discover.

Leonardo da Vinci,quoted in Adweek

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:36 am

"Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow money to do it."

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:07 am

No more gift registries. You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now it's for babies and new homes, graduations, and releases from jail. Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you isn't gift giving, it's the white people's version of looting.

G. Carlin

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:36 pm

TigerTownTurkey wrote:No more gift registries. You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now it's for babies and new homes, graduations, and releases from jail. Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you isn't gift giving, it's the white people's version of looting.

G. Carlin

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:39 pm

Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:10 pm

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright,quoted in the Minneapolis Star Tribune

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:41 am

"Prescription: a physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient."

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:31 am

I've learned the same thing about my garden that Adam and Eve learned about theirs. It's best to follow the instructions.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:03 pm

Integtity without knowledge is weak and useless,and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson,quoted in the Aberdeen,S.D. American News

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:04 pm

Integtity without knowledge is weak and useless,and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson,quoted in the Aberdeen,S.D. American News

PLAYFAIR · Post by **PLAYFAIR** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:50 pm

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Pearl S. Buck