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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 6h

A quotation from Pratchett > You couldn’t put off the inevitable. Because sooner or later, you reached the place where the inevitable just went and waited. **Terry Pratchett** (1948–2015) English author Discworld No. 13, _Small Gods_ (1992) * * * More about this quote […]

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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld > We are revealed to others in times of crisis, and even more so to ourselves. > > _[Les occasions nous font connoître aux autres, et encore plus à nous-mêmes.]_ **François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld** (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble […]

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A quotation from Samuel Johnson > It is not sufficiently considered how much he assumes who dares to claim the privilege of complaining; for as every man has, in his own opinion, a full share of the miseries of life, he is inclined to consider all clamorous uneasiness as a proof of impatience […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 10h

A quotation from Stephen Jay Gould > Questions are not neutral; they presuppose a list of assumptions that may be long and complex. **Stephen Jay Gould** (1941–2002) American paleontologist, geologist, biologist Essay (1994-09), “Lucy on the Earth in Stasis,” _Natural History_ magazine, Vol […]

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A quotation from Ingersoll > And do you know, it is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you will always see the face you loved and won. And a woman who really loves […]

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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson > And don’t be afraid of unpopular positions, of driving upstream. All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind. Don’t be afraid of being out of tune with your […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

A quotation from Oliver Goldsmith > HARDCASTLE: I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine; and, I believe, Dorothy, you’ll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife. **Oliver Goldsmith** (1730–1774) Irish poet, playwright, novelist _She Stoops to […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

A quotation from Mark Twain > A statesman gains little by the arbitrary exercise of iron-clad authority upon all occasions that offer, for this wounds the just pride of his subordinates, and thus tends to undermine his strength. A little concession, now and then, where it can do no harm, is the […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

A quotation from Horace > In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb’d away. > Seize the present; trust tomorrow e’en as little as you may. > > _[Dum loquimur, fugerit invida > aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]_ **Horace** (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson > Them that havenae dipped their hands in any little difficulty, should be very mindful of the case of them that have. And that is the good Christianity. **Robert Louis Stevenson** (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet Novel (1886), _Kidnapped_ […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

A quotation from Orwell > ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL > BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE > EQUAL THAN OTHERS **George Orwell** (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair] _Animal Farm_ , ch. 10 (1945) * * * More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/5271/ #quote […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

A quotation (maybe) from Thomas Carlyle > A sad spectacle! If they [other stars] be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space! **Thomas Carlyle** (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian Attributed * * * More about this quote […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt > Personally, granted that these books are decent and healthy, the one test to which I demand that they all submit is that of being interesting. If the book is not interesting to the reader, then in all but an infinitesimal number of cases it gives scant […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

A quotation from Doctor Who > THE DOCTOR: Well, you know how it is: you put things off for a day, next thing you know, it’s a hundred years later. _**Doctor Who**_ (1963–1989) British science fiction television series, original run (BBC) 20×01 “Arc of Infinity,” Part 1 (1983-01-03) [w. Johnny […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

A quotation from Hoffer > Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

A quotation from Josh Billings > Q. — How menny yards ov 5 dollar silk duz it take to make a dress? > A. — I dont kno, but it allwuss takes 2 yards and a haff more than yu buy the fust time. > > [Q. — How many yards of 5 dollar silk does it take to make a dress? > A. — I don’t know, but it […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

A quotation from Hemingway > And we in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the premeditation of a long planned murder […]

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A quotation from Cicero > MARCUS: Death is no annihilation, carrying off and blotting out everything, but rather, if I may so describe it, a change of abode, and an alteration in our manner of life. > > _[Mortem non interitum esse omnia tollentem atque delentem, sed quandam quasi migrationem […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

A quotation from Richard Armour > DEDICATED > to that amazing device, the Required Reading List, > better even than artificial respiration > for keeping dead authors alive. **Richard Armour** (1906–1989) American poet and author Book (1960), _The Classics Reclassified_ , Dedication * * * […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

A quotation from Ben Franklin > _Drink_ does not drown _Care_ , but waters it, and makes it grow faster. **Benjamin Franklin** (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist _Poor Richard Improved_ (1749 ed.) * * * More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/86… […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

A quotation from Gracian > Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool; and the faultier a man’s judgment, the firmer his conviction. > > _[Todo necio es persuadido, y todo persuadido necio; y quanto mas erroneo su dictamen, es mayor su tenacidad.]_ **Baltasar Gracián y […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

A quotation from Richard Feynman > The same thrill, the same awe and mystery, come again and again when we look at any problem deeply enough. With more knowledge comes deeper, more wonderful mystery, luring one on to penetrate deeper still. Never concerned that tht answer may prove […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

A quotation from Felix Frankfurter > Separation means separation, not something less. Jefferson’s metaphor in describing the relation between Church and State speaks of a “wall of separation,” not of a fine line easily overstepped. The public school is at once the symbol of our democracy and […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

A quotation from Bertrand Russell > What is less recognized is that we all suffer, to a greater or less degree, from nervous disorders having an emotional origin. A man is called sane when he is as sane as the average of his contemporaries; but in the average man many of the mechanisms which […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

A quotation from Molly Ivins > On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don’t need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done. **Molly Ivins** […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

A quotation from Euripides > ADMETUS: Then in my dreams you’d come and go, > Making me glad; to see a loved face even in dreams > Brings pleasure, for as long as the illusion lasts. > > ἌΔΜΗΤΟΣ: ἐν δ᾽ ὀνείρασιν > φοιτῶσά μ᾽ εὐφραίνοις ἄν: ἡδὺ γὰρ φίλους > κἀν νυκτὶ λεύσσειν, ὅντιν᾽ ἂν παρῇ […]

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A quotation from E. B. White > A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom — he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold. His gravest concern is lest gaiety, or truth in sheep’s clothing, somewhere gain a foothold, lest joy in some unguarded moment be […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce > FRAUD, _n._ The life of commerce, the soul of religion, the bait of courtship, and the basis of political power. **Ambrose Bierce** (1842–1914?) American writer and journalist “Fraud,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco _Wasp_ (1885-01-10) * * * More […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

A quotation from Hannah Arendt > Nobody knows what is going to happen because so much depends on an enormous amount of variables, or, in other words, on _hasard_. On the other hand, if you look back on history, then retrospectively, even though all this was contingent, you can tell a story that […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt > There are two kinds of snobbishness. That of the man who has had many good opportunities and looks down on those who lack them is usually recognized by all. The other kind of snobbishness is rarely understood, yet it is real. It is that of the self-made man […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

A quotation from The Bible > What hope do wicked people have? Only the hope of straw blown about in the wind, the hope of ocean foam that disappears in the storm, the hope of smoke in the breeze. Their hope lasts no longer than our memory of a guest who stays one day and leaves the next. > > […]

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A quotation from Victor Hugo > In times of revolution, beware of the first head that falls. It whets the people’s appetite. > > _[En temps de révolution, prenez garde à la première tête qui tombe. Elle met le peuple en appétit.]_ **Victor Hugo** (1802–1885) French writer, journalist, human […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

A quotation from Homer > There is a time for long tales, but there is also a time for sleep. > > [Ὥρη μὲν πολέων μύθων, ὥρη δὲ καὶ ὕπνου.] **Homer** (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author _The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια],_ Book 11, l. 379 (11.379) [Odysseus] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Rieu (1946)] * * * More about […]

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A quotation from Jean Kerr > I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little. **Jean Kerr** (1922–2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins] Essay (1968 ca.), “I Don’t Want to See the Uncut Version of […]

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A quotation from Richard Steele > I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception. **Richard Steele** (1672–1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician Essay (1709-11-10), _The Tatler_ , No. 92 * * * More about this […]

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A quotation from Propertius > It is the cause which shatters or exalts the soldier’s strength; if there be no just cause behind him, shame dashes the weapons from his hands. > > _[Frangit et attollit uires in milite causa; > quae nisi iusta subest, excutit arma pudor.]_ **Propertius** (50–16 […]

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A quotation from Shakespeare > CASCA: Three or four > wenches where I stood cried “Alas, good soul!” and > forgave him with all their hearts. But there’s no > heed to be taken of them; if Caesar had stabbed > their mothers, they would have done no less. **William Shakespeare** (1564–1616) […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld > We confess to small faults to create the impression that we have no great ones. > > _[Nous n’avouons de petits défauts que pour persuader que nous n’en avons pas de grands.]_ **François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld** (1613–1680) French epigrammatist […]

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A quotation from Samuel Johnson > He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young. **Samuel Johnson** (1709–1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic […]

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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll > If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. I make my choice now. I despise that doctrine. It has covered the cheeks of this world with tears. It has […]

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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson > The conformists abominate thought. Thinking implies disagreement and disagreement implies non-conformity and non-conformity implies heresy and heresy implies disloyalty. So obviously thinking must be stopped. This is the routine. But I say to you that bawling […]

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A quotation from Oliver Goldsmith > O blest retirement! friend to life’s decline, > Retreats from care that never must be mine. > How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, > A youth of labour with an age of ease. **Oliver Goldsmith** (1730–1774) Irish poet, playwright, novelist Poem […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

A quotation from Twain > We must have a religion — it goes without saying — but my idea is, to have it cut up into forty free sects, so that they will police each other, as had been the case in the United States in my time. Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an […]

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson > The inn at Kinlochaline was the most beggarly vile place that ever pigs were styed in, full of smoke, vermin, and silent Highlanders. **Robert Louis Stevenson** (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet Novel (1886), _Kidnapped_ , ch. 16 “The Lad […]

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A quotation from Horace > O my brave men! stout hearts of mine! > who often have suffered worse calamities with me. > let us now drown your cares in wine. > Tomorrow we venture once again upon the boundless sea. > > _[O fortes peioraque passi > mecum saepe viri, nunc vino pellite curas; > […]

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A quotation from Orwell > The relative freedom which we enjoy depends on public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle > This is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

A quotation from Josh Billings > An Enthuziast iz a party who beleaves about 4 times az mutch az he kan prove, and who kan prove about 4 times az mutch az ennyboddy else beleaves. > > [An Enthusiast is a party who believes about 4 times a smuch as he can prove, and who can prove about 4 times […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt > And as for a life deliberately devoted to pleasure as an end — why, the greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing. **Theodore Roosevelt** (1858–1919) American […]

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A quotation from Carlyle > Neither let mistakes and wrong directions — of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many — discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully, to be right, he will grow daily […]

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