Tuesday, July 14, 2009

WyzWmn has left the building....


should be back around the 22nd
all things being equal and the river don't rise....

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Humorist Wisdom

"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." - Leo Rosten

Monday, July 06, 2009

Poetic Wisdom

Love is not changed by death and nothing is lost and all in the end is harvest - Edith Sitwell

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

DJ Wisdom

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. - Moby

Monday, June 29, 2009

Poet Laureate Wisdom

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sunday, June 28, 2009

SciFi Writers Wisdom

Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie. - Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon

Friday, June 26, 2009

Activist Wisdom

Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. - Martin Luther King Jr

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Irish Playwrite Wisdom

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

English Author Wisdom

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. - Douglas Adams

Monday, June 22, 2009

Poetic Wisdom

There are more fools in the world than there are people. - Heinrich Heine

Friday, June 19, 2009

3rd Earl Wisdom....

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. - Bertrand Russell

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Presidential Wisdom

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin

Monday, June 15, 2009

Essayist Wisdom

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. - Edward Abbey

Friday, June 05, 2009

Irish Playwrite Wisdom

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Etymologist Wisdom

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. - Lewis Thomas

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

French Poetic Wisdom

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.- Marie De France, 12th Century

Friday, May 29, 2009

Actress Wisdom

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. - Bette Davis

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Dead President Wisdom

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Writer Wisdom

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. - Elbert Hubbard

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Essayist Wisdom

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. - Joseph Addison

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. - Barbra Streisand

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

English Writer Wisdom

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett

Friday, May 15, 2009

Dead President Wisdom

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. - Robert F Kennedy

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Countess of Westmorland Wisdom

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are...you need one. - Jane Howard

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Author Wisdom

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues. - Hugh Prather

Saturday, May 09, 2009

Greek Philosophy Wisdom

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. - Aristotle

Friday, May 08, 2009

Dutch Radio Wisdom

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. - Frank Dane

Thursday, May 07, 2009

American physician and writer Wisdom

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. - John Andrew Holmes

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Anonymous Wisdome

Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing. - Unknown

Thursday, April 30, 2009

French Philsopher Wisdom

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes