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WIST Quotations

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WIST (“Wish I’d Said That!”) is my collection of quotations (wist.info) which I find meaningful, moving, amusing (intended or not), or well-phrased […] [bridged from my-place.social/profile/wist on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

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With the impending deactivation of my-place.social, **WIST Quotations** has officially moved over to @wistquotes at friendica.world. Alas, the automatic migration process between Friendica instances didn't pan out, so my followers list didn't get automatically pulled over. I'll be reaching out individually to followers to let them know, in case you don't spot it here. Onward and upward! #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd

WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

A quotation from **Terry Pratchett** > And Sergeant Colon once again knew a secret about bravery. It was arguably a kind of enhanced cowardice — the knowledge that while death _may_ await you if you advance it will be a picnic compared to the _certain_ living hell that awaits should you retreat […]

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A quotation from **Adlai Stevenson** > Your public servants serve you right. **Adlai Stevenson** (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman Speech (1952-09-11), “On Political Morality,” Town Hall Luncheon, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles * * * More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin… […]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

A quotation from **La Rochefoucauld** > Nothing is so contagious as an example, and our every really good or bad action inspires a similar one. > > _[Rien n’est si contagieux que l’exemple, et nous ne faisons jamais de grands biens ni de grands maux qui n’en produisent de semblables.]_ […]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

A quotation from **Samuel Johnson** > Yet it is certain, likewise, that many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which […]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

A quotation from **Robert Ingersoll** > Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires, and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all […]

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A quotation from **Diogenes Laertius** > Let no one delay to study philosophy while he is young, and when he is old let him not become weary of the study; for no man can ever find the time unsuitable or too late to study the health of his soul. And he who asserts either that it is not yet time […]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

A quotation from **Mark Twain** > Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. **Mark Twain** (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens] Interview (1889) by Rudyard Kipling, Elmira, New York, _From Sea to Sea_ , Part 2, ch. 37 “An Interview with Mark […]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

A quotation from **C. C. Colton** > Power multiplies flatterers, and flatterers multiply our delusions by hiding us from ourselves. **Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton** (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist _Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words_ , Vol. 2, § 25 (1822) * * * More about this […]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

A quotation from **Robert Louis Stevenson** > The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. **Robert Louis Stevenson** (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist […]

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A quotation from **Horace** > Gold will be slave or master: ’tis more fit > That it be led by us than we by it. > > _[Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique, > tortum digna sequi potius quam ducere funem.]_ **Horace** (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius […]

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A quotation from **Orwell** > When one thinks of the cruelty, squalor, and futility of war — and in this particular case of the intrigues, the persecutions, the lies and the misunderstandings — there is always the temptation to say: “One side is as bad as the other. I am neutral.” In practice […]

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A quotation from **Racine** > HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d > To former faults. He who has once transgress’d > May violate at last all that men hold > Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees > Of progress; innocence was never seen > To sink at once into the […]

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A quotation from **Abraham Lincoln** > The advice of a father to his son “Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, bear it that the opposed may beware of thee,” is good, and yet not the best. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal […]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

A quotation from **Christopher Marlowe** > FAUSTUS: Faustus, begin thine incantations > And try if devils will obey thy hest, > Seeing thou hast prayed and sacrificed to them. > Within this circle is Jehovah’s name, > Forward, and backward, anagrammatised: > Th’abbreviated names of holy […]

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A quotation from **Edna St. Vincent Millay** > It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, > April > Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. **Edna St. Vincent Millay** (1892-1950) American poet Poem (1920-03), “Spring,” ll. 16-18 * * * More about this quote […]

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A quotation from **Moliere** > It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. > > _[Ce n'est pas seulement pour ce que nous faisons que nous sommes tenus responsables, mais aussi pour ce que nous ne faisons pas.]_ **Molière** (1622-1673) French playwright […]

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A quotation from **Teddy Roosevelt** > We must act upon the motto of all for each and each for all. There must be ever present in our minds the fundamental truth that in a republic such as ours the only safety is to stand neither for nor against any man because he is rich or because he is poor […]

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A quotation from **Thomas Carlyle** > No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign, and believe there, by the grace of God alone! **Thomas Carlyle** […]

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A quotation from **Eric Hoffer** > We ought to beware of people who do not think it necessary to pretend that they are good and decent. Lack of hypocrisy in such things hints at a capacity for a most depraved ruthlessness. **Eric Hoffer** (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman […]

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A quotation from **Josh Billings** > I hope i shall never hav so mutch reputashun, that i shant feel obliged tew be civil. > > [I Hope I shall never have so much reputation, that I shan’t feel obliged to be civil.] **Josh Billings** (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry […]

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A quotation from **Cicero** > For one who calls himself guardian of the many, as the wise say, should first be guardian of himself. > > _[Qui multorum custodem se profiteatur, eum sapientes sui primum capitis aiunt custodem esse oportere.]_ **Marcus Tullius Cicero** (106-43 BC) Roman orator […]

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A quotation from **Ben Franklin** > ’Tis easy to frame a good bold resolution; > But hard is the Task that concerns execution. **Benjamin Franklin** (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist Poor Richard (1743 ed.) * * * More about this quote […]

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A quotation from **Gene Fowler** > What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. **Gene Fowler** (1890-1960) American journalist, author, and dramatist. [b. Eugene Devlan] (Attributed) * * * More about this quote: wist.info/fowler-gene/80854/ #quote #quotes #quotation […]

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A quotation from **John Adams** > There is nothing I dread So much, as a Division of the Republick into two great Parties, each arranged under its Leader, and concerting Measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble Apprehension is to be dreaded as the greatest political Evil, under […]

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A quotation from **Thoreau** > I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. **Henry David Thoreau** (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer _Walden; or, Life in the Woods_ , ch. 1 “Economy” (1854) * * * More about this quote […]

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A quotation from **Franklin Roosevelt** > These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain […]

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A quotation from **Montaigne** > I was wondering recently how the error arose which leads us to have recourse to God in all our doings and designs, calling upon him in every kind of need and in any place whatsoever where our weakness needs support, without once considering whether the occasion […]

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A quotation from **Robert Holmes** > THE DOCTOR: Oh, I always like to do the unexpected. Takes people by surprise. **Robert Holmes** (1926-1986) British television screenwriter _Doctor Who_ (1963), 23×01 “The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet,” Part 1 (1985-01-05) * * * More about […]

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A quotation from **Douglas Adams** > The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t. **Douglas Adams** (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter _Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ No. 1, _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ , ch. 3 (1979) * * * More about this […]

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A quotation from **Marcus Aurelius** > But if, in addition, you would like an unphilosophical rule which appeals to the heart, nothing will make you more cheerful in the face of death than to consider the things from which you are about to be parted, and the sort of characters with whom your […]

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A quotation from **George Bernard Shaw** > The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor […] [Original post on my-place.social]

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. - Shaw

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A quotation from **Ogden Nash** > Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, > And that’s what parents were created for. **Ogden Nash** (1902-1971) American poet “The Parent,” _Happy Days_ (1933) * * * More about this quote: wist.info/nash-ogden/2947/ #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd […]

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A quotation from **Bertrand Russell** > Work, therefore, is desirable, first and foremost, as a preventive of boredom, for the boredom that a man feels when he is doing necessary though uninteresting work is as nothing in comparison with the boredom that he feels when he has nothing to do with […]

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A quotation from **Thomas Fuller** > One barking Dog, sets all the Street a-barking. **Thomas Fuller** (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ (compiler), # 3736 (1732) * * * More about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/8… #quote […]

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A quotation from **Molly Ivins** > Our political system has been thoroughly corrupted, and by the usual suspect — money, what else? The corruption is open, obscene, and unmistakable. The way campaigns are financed is a system of legalized bribery. We have a government of special interests, by […]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

A quotation from **Bill Watterson** > CALVIN: Today at school, I tried to decide whether to cheat on my test or not. I wondered, is it better to do the right thing and fail … or is it better to do the wrong thing and succeed? > On the one hand, underserved success gives no satisfaction … but […]

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A quotation from **Ambrose Bierce** > TELEPHONE, _n._ An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. **Ambrose Bierce** (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist “Telephone,” _The Devil’s Dictionary_ (1911) * * * More […]

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A quotation from **Hannah Arendt** > What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only […]

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A quotation from **A. A. Milne** > “It is hard to be brave,” said Piglet, sniffing slightly, “when you’re only a Very Small Animal.” **A. A. Milne** (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne] _Winnie-the-Pooh_ , ch. 7 “Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest” (1926) * * * […]

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A quotation from **Eleanor Roosevelt** > For years I have hoped that we could stop war as an instrument for settling any national and international difficulties. I have worked for it and shall continue to work for it. However, one has to face the world as it is and, without discarding one’s […]

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A quotation from **Euripides** > MEDEA: Men say we live a safe life in the home, > While they do battle with the spear. > But they are wrong; I’d rather stand three times > with shield in hand than give birth once. > > [ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: λέγουσι δ᾽ ἡμᾶς ὡς ἀκίνδυνον βίον > ζῶμεν κατ᾽ οἴκους, οἱ δὲ […]

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A quotation from **The Bible** > Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.” Instead, “if your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink, for by doing this you […]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

A quotation from **John Adams** > The Priesthood, have in all ancient Nations, nearly monopolized Learning. Read over again all the Accounts We have of Hindoos Chaldeans, Persians Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, We Shall find that Priests had all the Knowledge, and really governed all Mankind […]

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A quotation from **Henry Steele Commager** > What threatens our security is not change but the inability to change; what threatens progress is not revolution but stagnation; what threatens our survival is not novel or dangerous ideas but the absence of ideas. **Henry Steele Commager** […]

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A quotation from **Montesquieu** > When legislative power is united with executive power in a single person or in a single body of the magistracy, there is no liberty, because one can fear that the same monarch or senate that makes tyrannical laws will execute them tyrannically. > Nor is there […]

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A quotation from **Daniel Webster** > The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless. **Daniel Webster** […]

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A quotation from **Mignon McLaughlin** > After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage! **Mignon McLaughlin** (1913-1983) American journalist and author _The Neurotic’s Notebook_ , ch. 1 (1965) * * * More about this quote: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/80… […]

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