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"

Slovenian Wisdom

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. - Slovenian Proverb

Roman Wisdom

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca

Reclusive Novelist Wisdom

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger

Paleontologist Wisdom

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. - Stephen Jay Gould

Comedic Wisdom

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. - Gilda Radner

1st Earl of Beaconsfield Wisdom

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Benjamin Disraeli

1st Viscount St Alban Wisdom

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Sir Francis Bacon

Madame Bovary Wisdom

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. - Gustave Flaubert

Comedic Wisdom

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. - George Burns

French Novelist Wisdom

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. - Colette

German Philosopher Wisdom

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Swiss Wisdom

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. – Suzanne Necker

More Humorist Wisdom

Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also--in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind. - Mark Twain

humorist wisdom

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you. – Don Marquis

Science Fiction Wisdom

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. – John Sladek

Transcendentalist Wisdom

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. – Henry David Thoreau

Hungarian Socialite Wisdom

I know nothing about sex because I was always married. – Zsa Zsa Gabor

French General Wisdom

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. – Charles de Gaulle

Management Consultant Wisdom

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. – Peter Drucker

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

Pulitzer Prize Columnist Wisdom

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. – Ellen Goodman

Screenwriter Wisdom

Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all. – William Goldman

Philisophical Wisdom

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. – Henri-Frederic Amiel

Emmy Award Winning Wisdom...

I always wanted a happy ending….Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. – Gilda Radner

Philosopher Wisdom

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief; he will be satisfied with bad ones. – Bertrand Russell

Romantic Poet Wisdom

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. – James Russell Lowell

Sci Fi Writer Wisdom

Actions have consequences…first rule of life. And the second rule is this…you are the only one responsible for your own actions. – Holly Lisle

Pulizter Prize-Winning Wisdom

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which if it does not bring joy, can bring happiness. – Pearl Buck

Humorist Wisdom

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. – Evan Esar

Cartoonist Wisdom

The best way to get approval is not to need it. – Hugh Macleod

Journalist Wisdom

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. – Ellen Goodman

Self-Improvement Lecturer Wisdom

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. – Dale Carnegie

Activist Wisdom

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Anonymous Wisdom

People who live in darkness are always attracted to those who are lit from within. When they get close enough to hear your message the darkness in their hearts takes over. Let them go, and continue to live in the light. - Anonymous

Journalist Wisdom

"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect." – Joan Didion

Comedic Wisdom

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. – George Carlin

Prussian Royalty Wisdom

Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made. – Otto von Bismarck

Media Maven Wisdom

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobodies going to know whether you did it or not. – Oprah Winfrey

Comedic Wisdom

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end. – Jerry Seinfeld

Video Game Creator Wisdom

Deal with the consequences of your actions, ‘cause life ain’t no video game. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Poetic Wisdom

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven’t what they want that they really don’t want it – Ogden Nash

Poetic Wisdom

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. – e.e.cummings

US Presidential Wisdom

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. Harry S. Truman

Unknown Wisdom

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. - Unknown

Writer Wisdom

Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing duty without pain – Mark Twain

Chapter 80

the sound: John Lee Hooker – Roadhouse Blues, John Lee Hooker – One Burbon, John Lee Hooker – Bad Like Jessie James, John Lee Hooker – Boom Boom, John Lee Hooker – Rain, John Lee Hooker - Healer

We ate in Robert’s bedroom…he toyed with his food and shoved the plate away saying he wasn’t hungry.

I found myself staring at the darkened closet door. I tried to stop myself, but I did it so often that eventually both Robert and Rosie caught me.

Robert gave me the briefest of head shakes as if to tell me to stop or the cat would be out of the bag…Rosie…never one to let her mother on to anything she felt was untoward tried to ignore both of us.

Eventually Mrs. K ran out of things to say, and as I sat there rubbing my arm and glancing furtively at the walk in closet door she asked what was wrong with me.

“Girl? You don’t like the Chinese?”

“no it’s fine” I replied “I just can’t eat anything with peppers in it” I replied as I pushed rice and bean sprouts around on my plate.

“Whatever do you mean?” she looked up in time to catch my awkward glance at the closet…”and what is it that you are looking for? Is there someone in the closet?”

I held my breath as Mrs. K started to rise to her feet, but Rosie jumped up just in time to beat her to the punch…”I’ll look Mama…she’s probably thinking about getting Robert into something clean”

Rosie bustled into the closet, turning the light on as she went…I heard the distinctive sound of drawers opening and closeing and then the slight sound of breaking glass as she stepped on the syringe, grinding it into the carpet.

Rosie came out of the closet with a rather smug look on her face, her eyes met the question in mine and she nodded.

I sighed…and turned to Robert who looked for all intents and purposes like he’d like to yell at his sister but not in front of his mother...

“can I help you to the shower?” I asked

“no…you can get the hell out” he growled

“Roibhilín!” Mrs K admonished…”that’s no way to speak to your intended”

Comedic Wisdom

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. – George Carlin

Movie Maker Wisdom

You can pretend to be serious...you can't pretend to be witty - Sacha Guitry

British philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician wisdom

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. - Bertrand Russell

Ford Co Founder Wisdom

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous – Henry Ford.

Antebellum Polititian Wisdom

The world is governed more by appearances that realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. – Daniel Webster.

Christian Wisdom

It’s not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us. Real Live Preacher

Presidential Wisdom

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. – Abraham Lincoln

Cowboy Wisdom

Common sense ain’t common. – Will Rogers

Renaissance Wisdom

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. – Michel de Montaigne

Femminist Wisdom

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. – George Sand

Holly Daze

again!

see ya around the 19th!

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

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