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