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

Football Coach Wisdom

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. - Frank Leahy

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

WyzWmn has left the building....


should be back around the 22nd
all things being equal and the river don't rise....

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

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

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

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

Buddha Quote

"Three things cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - Buddha

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

Cartoonist Wisdom

These days an income is something you can't live without--or within. - Tom Wilson

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

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. - Thornton Wilder

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

Blogging Wisdom

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud. - Real Live Preacher

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

Author Wisdom

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Pro Basketball Player Wisdom

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. - Mo Udall

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

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. - Anatole Broyard

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

Comdeic/Actor/Singer Wisdom

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. - Dean Martin

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"