Columnist Wisdom for New Years Eve....

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. - Bill Vaughan

Unknown Wisdom

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. - Unknown

actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian wisdom

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. - Carl Reiner

Philosphical Wisdom

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Psychiatric Wisdom

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz

Writer Wisdom

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. - G. K. Chesterton

Poetic Wisdom

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet

Poetic Wisdom

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. - Charles Baudelaire

Mannerly Wisdom

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. - Judith Martin

News Anchor Wisdom

North Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. - Dan Rather

1st Earl of Beaconsfield Wisdom

I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist. - Benjamin Disraeli

Philosopher Wisdom

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. - John Stuart Mill

Comdeic/Actor/Singer Wisdom

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. - Dean Martin

Fantasy Writer Wisdom

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rick Cook

Columnist Wisdom

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. - Bill Vaughan

Comedic Seasonal Wisdom

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. - Henny Youngman

Poetic Wisdom

But by men with the hearts of Vikings, and the simple faith of a child;Desperate, strong and resistless, unthrottled by fear or defeat,Them will I gild with my treasure, them will I glut with my meat. - Robert Service, "The Law of the Yukon"