Life 101 Writer Wisdom

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves…We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation – Peter McWilliams

Writer Wisdom

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. – Storm Jameson

Comedic Wisdom

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. – George Burns.

Magazine persona wisdom

Crime does not pay….as well as politics - Alfred E Newman

Proverb Wisdom

All things are difficult before they are easy. – Dr. Thomas Fuller

Humourist Wisdom

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment – Robert Benchley

Pen Name Wisdom

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. - Voltaire

Roman Wisdom

Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even - Horace

Science Fiction Writer Wisdom

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert Heinlein

Irish Playwrite Wisdom

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live – Oscar Wilde

Writer Wisdom

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Mark Twain

Writer Wisdom

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. – Jules Renard

Historian Wisdom

…a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health.– James Mellon