Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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
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