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

Patriotism Wisdom

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. – Sir Winston Churchill

Writer Wisdom

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. – Louise Erdrich

Humorist Wisdom

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. – Robin Williams

Poet Wisdom

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence – Robert Frost

George Carlin: You Are All Diseased
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

R.I.P.

Novelist Wisdom

When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. – Edgar Watson Howe

Cartoonist Wisdom

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. – James Thurber

Psychologist Wisdom

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. – Harriet Lerner

Buddhist Wisdom

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – HH The Dalia Lama

Award Winning Wisdom

Mistakes are part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Al Franken

Poet Wisdom

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. – Nikki Giovanni

First Lady Wisdom

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Recreational Mathematics Wisdom

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. – Martin Gardner

Playwrite Wisdom

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge’s chamber believes in a unprejudiced point of view. – Lillian Hellman

German Philosopher Wisdom

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Marketing Executive Wisdom

Life is too short for traffic. ~Dan Bellack

Catching a yellow-jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary. ~Author Unknown

Video Game Developer Wisdom

What do you call a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet? An organ donor. ~David Perry

Unknown Wisdom

Whatever it is, it's better in the wind. ~Author Unknown

Basket Ball Coach Wisdom

And I to my motorcycle
Parked like the soul of the junkyard
Restored, a bicycle fleshed
With power, and tore off
Up Highway 106, continually
Drunk on the wind in my mouth,
Wringing the handlebar for speed,
Wild to be wreckage forever.

~James Dickey, "Cherrylog Road"

Unknown Wisdom

The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome. ~Author Unknown

American Journalistic Wisdom

Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. ~Hunter Thompson

Unknown Wisdom

Keep your bike in good repair: motorcycle boots are not comfortable for walking. ~Author Unknown

Unknown Wisdom

Keep your bike in good repair: motorcycle boots are not comfortable for walking. ~Author Unknown

Unknown Wisdom

Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory. ~Author Unknown

Couple Wisdom

It takes more love to share the saddle than it does to share the bed. ~Author Unknown

American Chopper Wisdom

You're the guy that'll be sneaking out of your bedroom at three o'clock in the morning to look at your bike. ~Paul Teutul, Sr., American Chopper, "Billy Joel"

Unknown Wisdom

Midnight bugs taste best. ~Author Unknown

Motorcycle Wisdom

Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul. ~Author Unknown

Motorcyclist Wisdom

Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle. ~Author Unknown

Noble Wisdom

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

motorcycle wisdom

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Clerical Wisdom

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. – Charles Caleb Colton

Poetic Wisdom

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire – Stanley Kunitz

Poet Wisdom

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length – Robert Frost

Chinese Philospher Wisdom

Forget injuries, never forget kindness - Confucius

Venture Capitalist Wisdom

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as “suits” – Paul Graham

Sri Lankabhimanya Wisdom

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them to the impossible – Arthur C. Clarke

Psychiatrist Wisdom

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right – but also to be wrong. – Thomas Szasz

Science Fiction Writer Wisdom

Life….is like a grapefruit. It’s orange and squishy, and had a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. -Douglas Adams

Blogger Wisdom

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it. – Mike Tatum

Columnist Wisdom

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear. – John C. Dvorak

Comedic Wisdom

Lauging at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it. Cullen Hightowner

Canadian Psychotherapist Wisdom

Self – esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves – Nathaniel Branden

Roman Elder Wisdom

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power - Seneca

Politician Wisdom

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. – Sir Winston Churchill

Novelist Wisdom

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought – Dorothy L. Sayers

HIstorian Wisdom

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so. – Bertrand Russell

Dutch Wisdom

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains – Dutch Proverb

Sculptor Wisdom

Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million – Hobart Brown

Theoretical Physicist Wisdom

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat – Albert Einstein

Scholarly Wisdom

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live" - Norman Cousins

Political Wisdom

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. – Winston Churchill

Poet Wisdom

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
I am large, I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman

French Philosopher Wisdom

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. - Voltaire

Original Dyna Pilot Wisdom

Life lived in fear of what may be, is no life. Life lived in denial of the possibilities is stupid. Life lived in the enjoyment of the things we love, is happiness. - Orignial Dyna Pilot via Todd's Harley Pix

Inventor Wisdom

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something. – Thomas A Edison

American Novelist Wisdom

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. – Robert Heinlein

Physicist Wisdom

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough. – Albert Einstein

Arthur's brother's Wisdom

"Motorcyclist are all bound together by a brotherhood tie through their love of the sport, and what difference does it make what make of machine he rides as long as he belongs to the clan" - Walter Davidson 1920.

Writer Wisdom

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. – Elbert Hubbard

Rock n Roll Wisdom

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent. – Berton Averre

Academy Award Winning Wisdom....

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off. – Woody Allen

On Hollydaze...

on hollydaze till the 25th
don't hold yer breath while I'm gone

WyzWmn has left the building!

French Revolutionary Wisdom

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake – Napoleon Bonaparte

Sports Journalist Wisdom

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish – Robert Jackson

Irish Writer Wisdom

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. – C.S.Lewis

Pen Name Wisdom

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside. – Robert X Cringely

Journalistic Wisdom

To have the right to do a think is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. – G. K. Chesterton

Cartoonist Wisdom

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?”
Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.” – Charles M. Schulz

"Cubist" Wisdom

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. – Pablo Picasso

American Humorist Wisdom

When we remember that we are all mad; the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain

Greek Philospher Wisdom

The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle

Latin Wisdom

NIL ILLEGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM = Don't let the bastards get you down

Parisian Stage Actor Wisdom

You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty. – Sacha Guitry

Philosopher Wisdom

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices – William James

Humorist Wisdom

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. – E. B. White

Royal Wisdom

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

Producer Wisdom

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. – Jane Wagner

Humorist Wisdom

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? – James Thurber

English Novelist Wisdom

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. – George Eliot

Writer/Director Wisdom

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. Nora Ephron

Composer Wisdom

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. – Edgard Varese

Literary Wisdom

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. David Herbert Lawrence

Fantasy Writer Wisdom

We’re not lost. We’re locationally challenged. – John M. Ford

Royal Wisdom

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. – Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales

Political Satirist Wisdom

The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’ meaning ‘many’ and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites.’ – Larry Hardiman

Satirist/Comedian Wisdom

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. – Mark Russell

Composer Wisdom

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, “you should make a point of trying every once, except incest and folk dancing. – Sir Arnold Bax

Raconteur Wisdom

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. – Quentin Crisp

English Journalist Wisdom

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. - G.K.Chesterton

1st Earl of Beaconsfield Wisdom

I repeat….that all power is a trust, that we are accountable for it’s exercise, that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. – Benjamin Disraeli

British 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

Abolitionist Wisdom

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. – Frederick Douglass