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