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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

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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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

A quotation from **Cicero** > All men make mistakes; but it is fools who persist in them. > > _[Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]_ **Marcus Tullius Cicero** (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher […] [Original post on my-place.social]

All men make mistakes; but it is fools who persist in them. - Cicero

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

A quotation from **Bill Watterson** > HOBBES: Whatcha doin’? > CALVIN: Looking for frogs. > HOBBES: How come? > CALVIN: I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul. > HOBBES: Ah. But of course. > CALVIN: My mandate also includes weird bugs. **Bill […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

A quotation from **The Bible** > Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. > > [χαίρειν μετὰ χαιρόντων, κλαίειν μετὰ κλαιόντων.] **The Bible** (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture Romans 12: 15 [KJV (1611)] […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

A quotation from **Bill Watterson** > CALVIN: (in front of the class yelling) Today for “Show and Tell,” I refuse to show you what I brought and I refuse to tell you anything about it. > CALVIN: (grinning evilly) It’s a mystery that will haunt you all your […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2025

A quotation from **Addison** > A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. **Joseph Addison** (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman Essay (1710-07-01), _The Tatler_ , No. 192 * […] [Original post on my-place.social]

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. - Addison

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

A quotation from **Victor Hugo** > Change your opinions, keep to your principles; > change your leaves, keep intact your roots. > > _[Changez vos opinions, gardez vos principes; > changez vos feuilles, gardez intactes vos racines.]_ **Victor Hugo** […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. - Victor Hugo

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

A quotation from **C. C. Colton** > Corruption is like a ball of snow, when once set a rolling it must increase. It gives momentum to the activity of the knave, but it chills the honest man, and makes him almost weary of his calling: and all that corruption […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Corruption is like a ball of snow, when once set a rolling it must increase. - C C Colton

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

A quotation from **Bill Watterson** > CALVIN’S MOM: There would be more civility in this world if people didn’t take it as an invitation to walk on you. **Bill Watterson** (b. 1958) American cartoonist _Calvin and Hobbes_ (1995-09-01) * * * More info […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Last panel of Calvin and Hobbes (1995-09-01).

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

A quotation from **A. A. Milne** > Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o’clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, “Honey or condensed milk with your bread?” he was so excited […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

A quotation from **Lincoln** > I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. **Abraham Lincoln** (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65) Letter (1864-04-04) to Albert G. Hodges * * * More about this quote: […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Letter to Albert G. Hodges. The quotation can be seen on the fourth line.

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

A quotation from **Bill Watterson** > CALVIN’S DAD: Why is it I can recall a cigarette ad jingle from 25 years ago, but I can’t remember what I just got up to do? **Bill Watterson** (b. 1958) American cartoonist _Calvin and Hobbes_ (1994-01-31) * * * […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

A quotation from **A. A. Milne** > Winnie-the-Pooh sat down at the foot of the tree, put his head between his paws and began to think. > “If there’s a buzzing-noise, somebody’s making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

A quotation from **Robert Louis Stevenson** > There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so […] [Original post on my-place.social]

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. - Stevenson

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2025

A quotation from **Henry David Thoreau** > There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. **Henry David Thoreau** (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer _Walden; or, Life in the Woods_ , ch. 1 “Economy” (1854) […] [Original post on my-place.social]

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - Thoreau

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

# **Administrivia** It looks like I've wrangled a more recent restore of the system, bringing everything back to where it was last Friday when it all went kerflooey. That means no rework on my part, which is a Good Thing. It also means I can start posting […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. -- Longfellow

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

# **Administrivia** So the good news is, my wist.info site is back up. The bad news is, my less-than-stellar hosting company could only fix the problem by restoring to ... 20 October. So I've lost a couple weeks of new and updated posts. Argh. So I'll be […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Civilization is a concerted effort to remedy the blunders and check the practical joking of the Creator. - H L Mencken

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

# **Administrivia** My underlying WordPress site is dealing with a database failure, which my host's techies are (still) trying to fix. #Quotation posting will resume upon the site being fixed. Sorry for the interruption.

Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer. -- James Richardson

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

A quotation from **Jonathan Swift** > Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired. **Jonathan Swift** (1667-1745) English writer and churchman Essay (1720-01-09), “Letter to a Young Clergyman” * * * More […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired. - Swift

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025

A quotation from **Roger Corless** > We make ourselves miserable by first closing ourselves off from reality and then collecting this and that in an attempt to make ourselves happy by _possessing_ happiness. But happiness is not something I _have_ , it is […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over my body. - Roger Corless

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

A quotation from **Bill Watterson** > CALVIN: Miss Wormwood, I have a question about this math lesson. > TEACHER: Yes? > CALVIN: Given that, sooner or later, we’re all just going to die, what’s the point of learning about integers? > TEACHER: Turn to page […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

A quotation from **Douglas Adams** > I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. **Douglas Adams** (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter Attributed in Richard Dawkins, “A Lament for Douglas Adams,” _The Guardian_ […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

A quotation from **Bill Watterson** > CALVIN: I wonder why people are never content with what they have. > HOBBES: Are you kidding? Your fingernails are a joke, you’ve got no fangs, you can’t see at night, your pink hides are ridiculous, your reflexes are […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

A quotation from **Montesquieu** > No tyranny is more cruel than the one practiced in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice — when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves. > > _[Il […] [Original post on my-place.social]

No tyranny is more cruel than the one practiced in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - Montesquieu

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

A quotation from **Mignon McLaughlin** > There’s only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that’s a writer sitting down to write. **Mignon McLaughlin** (1913-1983) American journalist and author _The […] [Original post on my-place.social]

There’s only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that’s a writer sitting down to write. - Mignon McLaughlin

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

A quotation from **Thomas Paine** > Because a body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by anybody. **Thomas Paine** (1737-1809) American political philosopher and writer _Rights of Man_ (1791) * * * More info about […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

A quotation from **William Pitt** > It is true, the bill is said to be founded on _necessity_ ; but what is this? Is it not _necessity_ , which has always been the plea of every illegal exertion of power, or exercise of oppression? Is not _necessity_ the […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Necessity ... is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

A quotation from **C. C. Colton** > If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends. **Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton** (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist _Lacon […] [Original post on my-place.social]

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends. - C C Colton

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

A quotation from **Franklin Roosevelt** > We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. **Franklin Delano Roosevelt** (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945) […] [Original post on my-place.social]

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. -- FDR

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

A quotation from **Jimmy Carter** > A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and […] [Original post on my-place.social]

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. - Jimmy Carter

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

A quotation from **Bill Watterson** > CALVIN: Some days you get up and you already know that things aren’t going to go well. They’re the type of days when you should just give in, put your pajamas back on, make some hot chocolate, and read comic books in bed […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

A quotation from **Oscar Wilde** > Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. **Oscar Wilde** (1854-1900) Irish […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. - Oscar Wilde

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

A quotation from **Theodore Roosevelt** Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in which he efficiently serves the United States. It is our duty to support him when he serves the United […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

A quotation from **Franklin Roosevelt** > The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. **Franklin Delano Roosevelt** (1882-1945) American lawyer […] [Original post on my-place.social]

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. - FDR

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

A quotation from **Molière** > MERCURY: An easygoing vice, I hold, is better than an angry virtue. > > MERCURE: [J’aime mieux un vice commode, > Qu’une fatigante vertu.] **Molière** (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste […] [Original post on my-place.social]

An easygoing vice, I hold, is better than an angry virtue. - Moliere

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

A quotation from **Josh Billings** > Thare may cum a time, when the Lion, and the Lam will lie down together, — i shall be az glad to see it az enny boddy, — but i am still betting on the Lion. > > [There may come a time, when the Lion and the Lamb will like […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

A quotation from **Bill Watterson** > CALVIN: Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2025

A quotation from **Havel** > If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living in truth. This is why it must be suppressed more severely than anything else. **Václav Havel** (1936-2011) […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

A quotation from **Horace** > Well begun is half done; dare to be wise; begin! > > _[Dimidium facti qui coepit habet; sapere aude; > incipe!]_ **Horace** (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] _Epistles [Epistularum […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Well begun is half done; dare to be wise; begin! - Horace

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

A quotation from **Teddy Roosevelt** > There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done. We must have complete and effective publicity […] [Original post on my-place.social]

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done. - Teddy Roosevelt

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

A quotation from **Bertrand Russell** > Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it. **Bertrand Russell** (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher _Conquest of Happiness_ , Part 1, ch […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it. - Bertrand Russell

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

A quotation from **Bill Watterson** > CALVIN: How come grown-ups don’t go out to play? > CALVIN’S DAD: Grown-ups can only justify playing outside by calling it exercise, doing it when they’d rather not, and keeping records to quantify their performance. > […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

A quotation from **A. A. Milne** > Kanga said to Roo, “Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk afterwards.” So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once … and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time […] [Original post on my-place.social]

E H Shepard illustration of Roo and Kanga

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025

A quotation from **John Adams** > You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first. **John Adams** (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801) Letter (1776-04-28) to Abigail Adams * * * More info about this […] [Original post on my-place.social]

You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first. - John Adams to Abigail Adams

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

A quotation from **A A. Milne** > Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Art of Christopher Robin and Pooh by E H Shepard

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

A quotation from **Bill Watterson** > CALVIN: Why does ice float? > CALVIN’S DAD: Because it’s cold. Ice wants to get warm, so it goes to the top of liquids in order to be nearer to the sun. > CALVIN: Is that true? > CALVIN’S DAD: Look it up and find out […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

A quotation from **Bill Watterson** > CALVIN: I’m thinking of starting my own talk radio show. I’ll spout simplistic opinions for hours on end, ridicule anyone who disagrees with me, and generally foster divisiveness, cynicism, and a lower level of public […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

A quotation from **A. A. Milne** > “Hallo, are you stuck?” he asked. > “N-no,” said Pooh carelessly. “Just resting and thinking and humming to myself.” **A. A. Milne** (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne] _Winnie-the-Pooh_ , ch. 2 […] [Original post on my-place.social]

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WIST Quotations @wist.my-place.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

A quotation from **The Bible** > And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. > > [καὶ μετ᾽ οὐ πολλὰς ἡμέρας συναγαγὼν πάντα ὁ νεώτερος υἱὸς […] [Original post on my-place.social]

Gerard van Honthorst, The Prodigal Son (1623)

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