Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 2m"The professor was just out of surgery when the staff came to tell him there was a serious error. They had removed his glossary instead of his appendix." Anon. "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool." Stephen King. "Forgetfulness is a form of freedom." Khalil Kibran. 000
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 23h"It is neither wealth nor splendour, but tranquility and occupation which gives happiness." Thomas Jefferson. "Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation." Eva Hoffman. "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." Victor Borge. 0143
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Notice: This place requires no physical fitness program. Everyone gets enough exercise jumping to conclusions, flying off the handle, running down the boss, knifing colleagues in the back, dodging responsibility, and pushing their luck." "We must silence those who oppose freedom of speech." Anon. 1142
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work--and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." Lucille Ball. "Time is a dress-maker specializing in alterations." Faith Baldwin. 0181
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish." Alfred Adler. "In youth we learn, in age we understand." Marie von Eschenbach. 0202
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error." Cicero. "It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it." William Makepeace Thackeray. "There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do." Jerome K. Jerome. 1132
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent, devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source." Doris Day. "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength." Leo Buscaglia. 0265
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Mistrust makes life difficult, trust makes it risky." Mason Cooley. "I love talking about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about." Oscar Wilde. "The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves." Cicero. "If speaking is silver, then listening is gold." Anon. 0110
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." Mike Ditka. "Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect." Samuel Johnson. "To get peace, if you want, make yourself a nest of pleasent thoughts to curl up inside of each night." John Ruskin. 3131
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"The cat is the animal to whom the Creator has given the biggest eyes, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from a rose tree." Colette. [Sidonie-Gabrielle]. "Laughter is by definition healthy." Doris Lessing. 0130
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"I meant to exercise more yesterday, but it just didn't workout." "Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic and a man's best response." Wiserafter90. On his deathbed at 100, asked where he would like to be buried: "Surprise me." said Bob Hope. "Every artist was first an amateur." Emerson. 0151
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Believe it or not, every fool you meet is the end result of millions of years of evolution." "If we had our lives to live over again, we could make the same mistakes much more easily." Anon. "He lives doubly who also enjoys the past." Marcus Morton. 0173
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." Abraham Lincoln. "The cat is the only animal that accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity." Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. "The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat." Joles Renard. 1273
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"A country cannot simultaneously prepare for and prevent war." Albert Einstein. "How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children." Charles Darwin. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls & looks like work." Thomas Edison. 1142
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport." Duffy Daugherty. "Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture." Elbert Hubbard. "Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anyone." Mark Twain. 2101
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"When I get an invitation to hug I embrace it." "A pessimist is one who looks both ways before crossing a one way street." Wiserafter90. "I will never be an old man, To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." Bernard Baruch. "You can't have everything. Where can you put it." Steven Wright. 1151
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do." Oscar Wilde. "Free thinkers are generally those who don't think at all." Laurence Stern. "You know you are getting old when all the names in your little black book have MD after them." Harrison Ford. 1190
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Some news headlines: "Court to Try Beating Victim" "March Planned for August" "Teacher Strikes Idle Kids" "City Homeless Cut in Half" "Lawyers Give Poor Advice" "Man Gets Year in Violin Case" "Feds Discover Crack in LA". What ever happened to proof reading? 4143
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"Reading connects us at the deepest levels; it is slow, rather than fast. That is its beauty and its challenge: in a culture of instant information, it requires us to pace ourselves." David L. Ulin. "To escape criticism--do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." Elbert Hubbard. 0110
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable." Mary Oliver. "Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure." Jack Lemmon. "The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more." Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Talking comes by nature--silence by understanding." Anon. 0184
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"Be ambitious to live, content with small means; seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion; be worthy, not just respectable; & wealthy, not rich. Listen to stars & birds, to babes & sages with open heart. Always let the spiritual grow up through the common. W. E. Channing. 2161
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind." Henry James. "Kindness is the highest form of intelligence." Walter Teasdale. "Outer beauty is a gift. Inner beauty is an accomplishment." R. G. Fine. 1246
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." Ralph Waldo Emerson. "If you want your children to be bright, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be brilliant, read them even more fairy tales." Albert Einstein. 2233
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." Mark Twain. "A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people promptly announces she never did care for pie." Tenneva Jordan. 1311
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"Every man (person) in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else." William Saroyan. "If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you, but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer." Alfred North Whitehead. 3698
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 06/09/2026 Tuesday past I saw my doctor for a check of my medications & supplements. He discontinued one medicine then asked questions about my eating. That produced a printed diet which he recommended, a 'longevity' diet to replace mine. When does longevity kick in? I'm 94. 2862965193
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time." & "When in doubt, tell the truth." "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not." Mark Twain. "I still feel young at heart but somewhat older just about everywhere else." Wiserafter90. 0411
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Just some idle thoughts. "Dust: It's what gives our home a warm, fuzzy feeling." "Bacteria: The only culture some people have." "Is it just coincidence that 'listen' and 'silent' have the same six letters?" "You can't buy happiness but you can buy books and that's kind of the same thing." Anon. 06614
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"For a balanced life you need a dog to adore you and a cat to ignore you." "In our home we do grace, we do mistakes, we do real, we do sorry, we do funny, we do loud, we do hugs, we do family, we do love." Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." Anon. 0408
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going." J. B. Priestly. "You have more birthdays, you get older. What's the solution? Stop having birthdays."My train of thought just derailed; no survivors." Wiserafter90. 0170
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"The word 'happiness' exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists." Jorge Luis Borges. "Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony." Thomas Merton. "Aging? The time of life when actions creak louder than words." Anon. 1273
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"Love is about curiosity, not certainty, and it can come in many different packages and arrangements and still be the same thing--no better, no worse." Daniel James. "I don't do alcohol any more--I get the same effect just standing up fast." Anon. 0111
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"Sometimes I am greatly refreshed by doing nothing and then taking a little rest." Wiserafter90. "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." Margaret Thatcher. "Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." Henry David Thoreau. 0100
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"Kindness is the sunshine in which friendships blossom." M. Rhoda. "It is not enough to have great qualities; one must make good use of them." Francois Rochefoucauld. "Nothing brings warmth to the heart like the sunshine of a friendly smile." E. J. Wesley. 062
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 29/08/20260n a personal note, a warm welcome to my Canadian followers. With one son and family long time residents & his daughter married to a Canadian, you are part of my family also. 🇨🇦 0141
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 29/08/2026"A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realization that you can't make old friends." Christopher Hitchens. "Paper is cheap and authors need not now erase one book before they write another." Henry David Thoreau. "How beautiful a day when kindness touches it." George Elliston. 060
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"Joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it." Lupita Nyon'go. "It is my comfort and sincere conviction that you are going to try the life for which you are best suited." Charles Dickens. "One joy dispels a hundred cares." Anon. 070
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Time is precious; waste it wisely." Anon. "It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." Jerome K. Jerome. "Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well." Samuel Butler. 041
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"You can't blame a writer for what the characters say." Truman Capote. "Fear not those who argue but those who dodge." Dale Carnegie. "What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion." Lester Markel. "Jealousy is the grave of affection." Mary Baker Eddy. 061
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"Sometimes the best advice comes from those who have made the worst decisions earlier in their lives." Virginia Price. "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer. 080
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"I hate housework. You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again." Joan Rivers. "Water is the most essential element of life, because without water you can't make coffee." Anon. "Words are but air; the pen leaves a mark." Anon. 0131
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 23/08/2026A few bad puns: "I suffer from kleptomania. When it gets really bad I take something for it." "She was acute girl with the face of an angle." "If you boil a funny bone it becomes a laughing stock. That's humerus." "Why is Peter Pan always flying? He neverlands." (That one never gets old.) 1113
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Child's concept of death: Girl (8) "Everybody cries when someone dies because they don't want to be left behind." Girl (8) "You don't cry when you die but you don't laugh either." Girl (9) "When you die they put you in a box and bury you in the ground because you don't look so good." 090
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Child's concept of death: Girl (9) "Everyone is scared to die except the people who are already dead." Boy (10) "A good doctor can help you so you won't die. A bad doctor sends you to heaven." Boy (9) "Doctors help you so you won't die until you pay their bills." 060
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Child's concept of death: Girl (9) "I hope my best friend doesn't die because then he won't be my best friend anymore." Girl (9) "When you die you don't have to do homework in heaven unless your teacher is there too." Girl (10) "Heaven is a nice place to go, but nobody is in a rush to get there." 060
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Child's concept of death: Girl (8) "My grandfather died and then my grandmother died because she wanted to be with my grandfather because they were married for 50 years and they liked to play cards together." Boy (8) "The hospital is the place people go on their way to heaven." 041
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Child's concept of death: Boy (9) "Maybe I'll die some day but I hope I don't die on my birthday because it's no fun celebrating your birthday if you're dead." Boy (8) "Grown-ups who smoke die before grown-ups who don't smoke. Grown-ups who smoke must be in a hurry to die." 020
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Child's concept of death: Girl (10) "God doesn't tell you when you are to die because he wants it to be a surprise." Girl (10) "I hope I don't die with my brother because I don't want him to sock me in heaven too." Boy (9) "When you die you stop breathing and you don't sneeze or hiccup anymore." 160