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