Wit & Wisdom

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:22 pm

Is there anything better than to be longing for something when you know it is within reach?

Greta Carbo,quoted in Real Simple

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:59 am

It isn't what they say about you,it's what they whisper.

Errol Flynn.quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:33 am

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln,quoted in the Hillsboro,Kansas Free Press

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:30 am

When somebody says it's not about the money--it's about the money.

H.L.Mencken,quoted in The New York Times

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:12 pm

When somebody say's it's not about the sex--it's about the sex.

Former Sen. Dale Bumpers,ibid.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:08 pm

The toughest thing about success is that you're got to keep on being a success.

Iving Berlin-quoted in Enterpreneur

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:03 am

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

George Bernard Shaw ,quoted in Go! Magazine

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:47 pm

A man who tries to carry a cat home by its tail will learn a lesson that can be learned in no other way.

Mark Twain,quoted in The New York Times

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:02 pm

Insects do not sting out of malice but because they also want to live;likewise out critics--they want our blood,not our pain.

Friedrich Nietzsche,quoted in the London Independent

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:25 pm

Is is possible to fail in many ways,while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle,quoted in the Wilkes-Barre,Pa Time Leader

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:23 pm

there's no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus,quoted in the Staunton,Va.Daily News Leader

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:26 am

Being in politics is like being a football coach.You have to be smart enough to understand the game,and dumb enough to think it's important

Eugenr McCarthy,quoted in The Washington Post.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:10 am

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth and unknown to themselves

Essayist William Hazlitt,quoted in the London Independent

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:14 pm

A trial is when a jury decides which side has the best set of lawyers.

Mark Twain,quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:21 pm

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

Michel de Montaigne,quoted in the International Herald Tribune

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:45 pm

Do one thing,and do it so well that people will return and bring their friends with them.

Walt Disney,quoted in the Indianapolis Star

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:01 pm

If you don't know where you are going,any road will take you there.

Lewis Carroll,quoted in Direct magizine

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:46 am

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Frederick Douglass,quoted n The Villsge Voice

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:15 pm

I take a simple view of living.It is a keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Laurence Olivier,quoted in the Associated Press.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:25 pm

Life is about not knowing,having to change,taking the moment and making the best of it,without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious ambiguity

Gilda radner,quoted in the Virginia Lwa Weekly