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12 Dec 2022
Going forward, I am suspending reposting of new quotes here on Twitter. I do not care to support its traffic at this time. You can follow me by various means at the home site, wist.info, esp. through Mastodon at zirk.us/@WISTquote/ .
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12 Dec 2022
Banneker, Benjamin: Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects "bad manners."
Quoted in Friends' Intelligencer, vol. 11 (1854). ... wist.info/banneker-benjamin/… #quotation
12 Dec 2022
Burton, Robert: Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both. Other sins last but for awhile; the gut may be satisfied, anger remits, hatred hath an end, envy ne ... wist.info/burton-robert/5764… #quotation
12 Dec 2022
Bear, Elizabeth: Anger is an inoculant. It gets your immune system working against bullshit. But anger can also make you sick, if you’re exposed to it for too long. That same caustic anger that can inspire you to acti ... wist.info/bear-elizabeth/576… #quotation
9 Dec 2022
Levine, Emily: I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love. ... wist.info/levine-emily/57631… #quotation
9 Dec 2022
Martial: You have robbed the young gallant of nostrils and ears,
And his face now of both is bereft.
But your vengeance remains incomplete it appears;
He has still got another part left.
[Foedasti miser ... wist.info/martial/57625/ #quotation
9 Dec 2022
Nehru, Jawaharlal: Ignorance is always afraid of change. It fears the unknown and sticks to its rut, however miserable it may be there. In its blindness it stumbles on anyhow. ... wist.info/nehru-jawaharial/5… #quotation
9 Dec 2022
Dante Alighieri: In despair
they blasphemed God, their parents, their time on earth,
the race of Adam, and the day and the ho ... wist.info/dante-alighieri-po… #quotation
8 Dec 2022
Virgil: Here are troops of men
who had suffered wounds, fighting to save their country,
and those who had been pure priests while still alive,
and the faithful poets whose songs were fit for Phoebus;
thos ... wist.info/virgil/57600/ #quotation
8 Dec 2022
Gaiman, Neil: NOTE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND AMERICANS: One shilling = Five Pee. It helps to understand the antique finances of the Witchfinder Army if you know the original British monetary system:
Two farthings = ... wist.info/gaiman-neil/57593/ #quotation
8 Dec 2022
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Since law constitutes the bond of civil society, and the authority of the law is equal, how can the society of citizens be maintained when their condition is not equal? If it be not pleasing to ... wist.info/cicero-marcus-tull… #quotation
8 Dec 2022
Tolkien, J.R.R.: Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter!
Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor! ... wist.info/tolkien-jrr/16179/ #quotation
8 Dec 2022
Black, Hugo: Bad men, like good men, are entitled to be tried and sentenced in accordance with law, and when it is shown to us that a person is serving an illegal sentence our obligation is to direct that proper s ... wist.info/black-hugo/19132/ #quotation
8 Dec 2022
Helprin, Mark: The voodoo priest and all his powers were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human s ... wist.info/helprin-mark/57571… #quotation
7 Dec 2022
Russell, Bertrand: Most people learn nothing from experience, except confirmation of their prejudices. ... wist.info/russell-bertrand/5… #quotation
7 Dec 2022
McLaughlin, Mignon: "Life is meant to be lived." Telling that to most of us is as useful as telling a mouse that aluminum is meant to be made into cars. ... wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/… #quotation
7 Dec 2022
Lamott, Anne: Expectations are resentments waiting to happen. ... wist.info/lamott-anne/57558/ #quotation
7 Dec 2022
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth: So much to win, so much to lose,
No marvel that I fear to choose. ... wist.info/landon-letitia-eli… #quotation
7 Dec 2022
Della Casa, Giovanni: But to give one's advice to others, unasked, is, in effect, to declare that we are much wiser than those to whom we give it; and is a kind of reproaching them with their ignorance and inexperience. ... wist.info/della-casa-giovann… #quotation
6 Dec 2022
Bascom, John: The cardinal method with faults is to overgrow them and choke them out with virtues. ... wist.info/bascom-john/57546/ #quotation
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