Monday, July 27, 2009
Theologin Wisdom
There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the other are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; and men's own rigtheousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make rigtheousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them. - Jonathan Edwards
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
German scientist, satirist and Anglophile Wisdom
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Peter Principle creator wisdom
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Humorist Wisdom
"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." - Leo Rosten
Monday, July 06, 2009
Poetic Wisdom
Love is not changed by death and nothing is lost and all in the end is harvest - Edith Sitwell
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
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
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
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
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
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
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Friday, May 08, 2009
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
Thursday, April 30, 2009
French Philsopher Wisdom
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Cartoonist/Writer Wisdom
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Roman Wisdom
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. - Sallust
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Chinese Philospher Wisdom
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. - Confucius
Monday, March 23, 2009
Novelist Wisdom
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Author Wisdom
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. - Franklin P. Jones
Monday, March 09, 2009
Satirist Wisdom
Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. - Ambrose Bierce
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Mathematical Wisdom
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. - Nikola Tesla
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Quip Writer Widsom
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else. - Cullen Hightower
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Comedic Wisdom
With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?'- Mitch Hedberg
Monday, February 23, 2009
Movie Star Wisdom
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. - Elizabeth Taylor
Friday, February 20, 2009
Psychologist Wisdom
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Novelist Wisdom
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. - Herman Wouk
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Newspaper Columnist Wisdom
There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool. - L. M. Boyd
Monday, February 16, 2009
Journalistic Wisdom
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived. - Anna Quindlen
Friday, February 13, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Columnist Wisdom
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. - Doug Larson
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Philanthropic Wisdom
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. - Andrew Carnegie
Monday, February 09, 2009
Writer Producer Wisdom
I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember. - Diane Frolov
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Psychoanalytical Wisdom
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, of course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis. - Abraham Myerson
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Personal Enrichment Wisdom
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. - Shakti Gawain
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Sprituality Wisdom
Religion is for those who don't want to go to Hell. Spirituality is for those of us who have already been through it. - Anonymous
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Spiritual Wisdom
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Monday, February 02, 2009
Academic Wisdom
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it. - Emerson Pugh
Friday, January 30, 2009
Ficticious Wisdom
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. - Doctor Who
Thursday, January 29, 2009
French Author Wisdom
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Universalist Wisdom
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. - Samuel McChord Crothers
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
First Lady Wisdom
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Monday, January 26, 2009
Newspaper Columnist Wisdom
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley
Friday, January 23, 2009
Author Wisdom
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. - Franklin P. Jones
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Playwrite Wisdom
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. - Jean Kerr
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
44th Presidential Wisdom
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barack Obama
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Columnist Wisdom
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. - Herb Caen
Monday, January 19, 2009
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
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charles M. Schulz
Friday, January 16, 2009
British Science Fiction Author Wisdom
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Mathematician Philosopher Wisdom
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. - Bertrand Russell
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Artistic Director Wisdom
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. - Barbara Tober
Monday, January 12, 2009
Genetisist Wisdom
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things. - J. B. S. Haldane
Friday, January 09, 2009
Dead President Wisdom
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. - Abraham Lincoln
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Philosopher Wisdom
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. - Voltaire
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Ancient Greek Wisdom
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. - Dandemis
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Literary Critic Wisdom
Monday, January 05, 2009
Canadian Novelist Wisdom
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. - Robertson Davies
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Theological Wisdom
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. - Kahlil Gibran
Friday, January 02, 2009
Psychiatric Wisdom
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Unknown Wisdom
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. - Unknown
Monday, December 22, 2008
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
Friday, December 19, 2008
Philosphical Wisdom
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Psychiatric Wisdom
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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
Friday, December 12, 2008
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
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Mannerly Wisdom
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. - Judith Martin
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
News Anchor Wisdom
North Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. - Dan Rather
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
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
Monday, December 08, 2008
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
Friday, December 05, 2008
Thursday, December 04, 2008
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
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
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
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Comedic Seasonal Wisdom
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. - Henny Youngman
Monday, December 01, 2008
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"
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