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A reminder that this account has moved to @wist (my-place.social/profile/wist), a Fediverse site which provides nicer-looking posts. I have over 200 followers here, but only a couple of dozen have made the switch. Hope to see you there soon!

WIST Quotations is MOVING to [email protected] That Friendica site gets me around the 500 byte limits here and includes rich text formatting, but is still fully accessible via ActivityPub to all Mastodon and Fediverse users. Since I don't want to double-dip on […] [Original post on zirk.us]

A quotation from Omar Khayyam: « Last night I smote the winecup on a stone; For such mad folly how may I atone? The shatter’d cup, in mystic language, said, “I was like thee, my fate shall be thine own.” » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/74205/ #quote #quotes […]

A quotation from Moliere: « CÉLIMÈNE:Yes, he’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue. There’s never any point to what he says; ‘t is only noise to which we listen. [C’est un parleur étrange, et qui trouve toujours L’art de ne vous rien dire avec de […]

A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore: « In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect […]

A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas: « My friend, brag not yet of our American cousins! Their quantity of cotton, dollars, industry and resources, I believe to be almost unspeakable; but I can by no means worship the like of these. What great human soul, what great thought, what great noble thing […]

A quotation from Peters, Ellis: « Cadfael was not of the opinion that a man’s main business in this world was to save his own soul. There are other ailing souls, as there are ailing bodies, in need of a hoist towards health. » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/peters-ellis/74195/ […]

A quotation from Billings, Josh: « We all ov us beleave that we are the espeshall favourites ov fortune, but fortune don’t beleave enny sutch thing. [We all of us believe that we are the especial favorites of fortune, but fortune don’t believe any such thing.] » Full quote, sourcing, notes […]

A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius: « If you have a garden in your library, we shall have all we want. [Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.] » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/43635/ #quote #quotes #quotation #beauty #discussion #garden […]

A quotation from Franklin, Benjamin: « He that pursues two Hares at once, does not catch one and lets t’other go. » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/franklin-benjamin/74186/ #quote #quotes #quotation #aspiration #confusion #focus #goal #pursuit

A quotation from Adams, Douglas: « “You,” said Sally Mills, “are very strange.” “Only,” said Dirk, “as strange as I need to be.” » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/adams-douglas/74183/ #quote #quotes #quotation #oddity #strangeness #weirdness

A quotation from Chesterton, Gilbert Keith: « I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-keith/74179/ #quote #quotes #quotation #action […]

A quotation from Thoreau, Henry David: « Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. » Full quote, sourcing, notes […]

A quotation from Roosevelt, Franklin Delano: « Too many who prate about saving democracy are really only interested in saving things as they were. Democracy should concern itself also with things as they should be. » Full quote, sourcing, notes […]

A quotation from Montaigne, Michel de: « The mind that has no fixed goal loses itself; for as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere. [L’âme qui n’a point de but établi, elle se perd: car comme on dit, c;est n’ètre en aucun lieu que d’être partout.] » Full […] [Original post on zirk.us]

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius: « The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose. [ἑτέρου δέ, ὅτι καὶ ὁ πολυχρονιώτατος καὶ ὁ τάχιστα τεθνηξόμενος τὸ […]

A quotation from Wilcox, Ella Wheeler: « There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it soon or late. What obstacle can stay the mighty force Of the […]

A quotation from Russell, Bertrand: « A certain power of enduring boredom is therefore essential to a happy life, and is one of the things that ought to be taught to the young. […] A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow […]

A quotation from Carleton, Will: « But I have learned a thing or two: I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late. » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/carleton-will/74158/ #quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #greed #living #money […]

A quotation from Fuller, Thomas (1654): « Consult not too much, ’twill confound thee. » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/74155/ #quote #quotes #quotation #advice #confusion #consult #counsel #muddle

A quotation from Bolt, Robert: « MORE: You threaten like a dockside bully. CROMWELL: How should I threaten? MORE: Like a Minister of State, with justice! CROMWELL: Oh, justice is what you’re threatened with. MORE: Then I’m not threatened. » Full quote, sourcing, notes […]

A quotation from Watterson, Bill: « CALVIN: I don’t want to go to school. I don’t want to know anything new. I already know more than I want to! I liked things better when I didn’t understand them! The fact is, I’m being educated against my will! My rights are […] [Original post on zirk.us]

A quotation from Bierce, Ambrose: « NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/74148/ #quote #quotes #quotation #aggravation #loveyourneighbor #neighbor

A quotation from Taylor, Barbara Brown: « I am not in charge of this House, and never will be. I have no say about who is in and who is out. I do not get to make the rules. Like Job, I was nowhere when God laid the foundations of the earth. I cannot bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the […]

A quotation from Barrie, James: « HOOK: (with curling lip) So, Pan, this is all your doing! PETER: Ay, Jas Hook, it is all my doing. HOOK: Proud and insolent youth, prepare to meet thy doom. PETER: Dark and sinister man, have at thee. » Full quote, sourcing […] [Original post on zirk.us]

A quotation from Euripides: « ELEKTRA: What deceived you the most, what you misunderstood, Is that someone cannot be strong because of money. Money can only stay with us for a brief time. Character is strength, not money. Character always stands at our sides and bears our troubles. Wealth […]

A quotation from Jung, Carl: « One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. » Full […]

A quotation from Bible, vol. 2, New Testament: « The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. [τὸ μὲν πνεῦμα πρόθυμον ἡ δὲ σὰρξ ἀσθενής.] » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/bible-nt/25155/ #quote #quotes #quotation #body #humannature #intention #spiritiswilling […]

A quotation from King, Martin Luther: « In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When […] [Original post on zirk.us]

A quotation from Hugo, Victor: « One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For the sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean. [On n’empêche pas plus la […]

A quotation from Addison, Joseph: « There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. We look upon the man who gives it us as offering an affront to our understanding, and treating us like children or idiots. We consider the instruction as an implicit censure, and the zeal […]

A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.: « We are all tattoed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how […]

A quotation from Emerson, Ralph Waldo: « A main fact in the history of manners is the wonderful expressiveness of the human body. If it were made of glass, or of air, and the thoughts were written on steel tablets within, it could not publish more truly its meaning than now. Wise men read very […]

A quotation from Taleb, Nassim Nicholas: « Knowledge is subtractive, not additive — what we subtract (reduction by what does not work, what not to do), not what we add (what to do). » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/74121/ #quote #quotes #quotation […]

A quotation from Antrim, Minna: « Politeness is a gilt-edged investment that seldom misses a dividend. » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/antrim-minna/74119/ #quote #quotes #quotation #courtesy #investment #politeness #reward #social

A quotation from Martin, Judith: « The pejorative term “political correctness” was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe. » Full quote, sourcing, notes […]

A quotation from Shakespeare, William: « MERCUTIO:Come, we burn daylight, ho! ROMEO: Nay, that’s not so. MERCUTIO:I mean, sir, in delay. We waste our lights in vain, light lights by day. » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/74111/ #quote #quotes #quotation […]

A quotation from Chamfort, Nicolas: « Society is composed of two great classes — those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. [La Société est composée de deux grandes classes : ceux qui ont plus de dîners que d’appétit, et ceux qui ont plus […]

A quotation from Leopold, Aldo: « The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, “What good is it?” If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but […]

A quotation from Ingersoll, Robert Green: « Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government; the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same […]

A quotation from Selden, John: « Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do. But if the physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing, and himself do quite another, could I believe him? » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/selden-john/74099/ […]

A quotation from Rogers, Will: « When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that’s all there is to success is satisfaction. » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/rogers-will/74095/ #quote #quotes #quotation #satisfaction #success

A quotation from Stevenson, Robert Louis: « In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/74093/ #quote #quotes #quotation #bedtime #darkness […]

A quotation from Stanton, Elizabeth Cady: « To think that all in me of which my father would have felt a proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman. » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/stanton-elizabeth-cady/74091/ #quote #quotes #quotation […]

A quotation from Mencken, H. L.: « Theology is an effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing. » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/mencken-hl/73864/ #quote #quotes #quotation #ineffable #jargon #terminology #theology #unknown

A quotation from Franklin, Benjamin: « Don’t misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer. » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/franklin-benjamin/73839/ #quote #quotes #quotation #attorney #candor #doctor #honesty #lawyer #legalsystem #lies #medicalcare #self-interest

A quotation from Billings, Josh: « I notiss that when a man runs hiz hed aginst a post, he cusses the post fust, all kreashun next, and sumthing else last, and never thinks ov cussing himself. [I notice that when a man runs his head against a post, he cusses the post first, all creation next […]

A quotation from Omar Khayyam: « When in the market-place I stopped one day To watch a potter pounding his fresh clay, The clay addressed him in a mystic tongue “Once I was man, so treat me gently, pray!” » Full quote, sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/73814/ #quote #quotes […]