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WIST ("Wish I'd Said That") is my personal collection of quotations, curated for thought, amusement, turn of phrase, historical significance, or sometimes just (often-unintentional) irony or buffoonery. Posting a quote is not necessarily endorsing a quote.

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A quotation from Bierce, Ambrose:

«
EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation, and the damnation of our neighbors.
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https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/69389/

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A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:

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Never build a dungeon you wouldn’t be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.
»

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https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/4953/

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A quotation from Lebowitz, Fran:

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Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one’s interest in the topic has waned.
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https://wist.info/lebowitz-fran/33019/

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A quotation from James, P. D.:

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I don’t think he had known much demonstrative love in his childhood and what a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.
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https://wist.info/james-pd/68313/

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A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:

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Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
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https://wist.info/mencken-hl/68140/

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A quotation from Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von:

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There are very few honest friends — the demand is not particularly great.
[Es gibt wenig aufrichtige Freunde. Die Nachfrage ist auch gering.]
»

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https://wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach-marie/11745/

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A quotation from Jerome, Jerome K.:

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But we are so blind to our own shortcomings, so wide awake to those of others. Everything that happens to us is always the other person’s fault. Angelina would have gone on loving Edwin forever and ever and ever if only Edwin had not grown so strange and different. Edwin would have adored Angelina through eternity if Angelina had only r…
»

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https://wist.info/jerome-jermome-k/67735/

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A quotation from Martin, Judith:

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The proper use of embarrassment is as a conscience of manners. As your conscience might trouble you if you do anything immoral, your sense of embarrassment should be activated if you do anything unmannerly. As conscience should come from within, so should embarrassment. Hot tingles and flushes are quite proper when they arise from your…
»

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https://wist.info/martin-judith/2692/

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A quotation from Lessing, Gotthold:

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ARIDÄUS: What is a hero without love for mankind?

[Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe?]
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https://wist.info/lessing-gotthold/67351/

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A quotation from Euripides:

«
Speak not of wealth; I can’t admire a god
whom even the basest man can get into his hold.
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https://wist.info/euripides/67335/

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A quotation from Godwin, Gail:

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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.
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https://wist.info/godwin-gail/37164/

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A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:

«
THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT.
“Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”
»

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https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/44930/

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A quotation from Adams, Douglas:

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I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

  1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

  2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can prob…
    »

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https://wist.info/adams-douglas/66399/

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A quotation from Bible, vol. 1, Old Testament:

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Find joy with the wife you married in your youth, fair as a hind, graceful as a fawn. Let hers be the company you keep, hers the breasts that ever fill you with delight, hers the love that ever holds you captive.
»

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https://wist.info/bible-ot/29509/

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A quotation from Billings, Josh:

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One ov the most diffikult, and at the sametime one ov the most necessary, things for us old phellows to know, is that we aint ov so mutch ackount now az we waz.

[One of the most difficult, and at the same time one of the most necessary, things for us old fellows to know, is that we aren’t of so much account now as we were.]
»

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https://wist.info/billings-josh/65685/

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A quotation from Oliver, Mary:

«
Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled —
to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
»

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https://wist.info/oliver-mary/65637/

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A quotation from Euripides:

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It is not worth living,
when we see bad men unjustly honored.

[ου γαρ άξιον λεύσσειν φάος κακούς ορώντας εκδίκως τιμωμένους.]
»

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https://wist.info/euripides/65197/

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A quotation from Jung, Carl:

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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https://wist.info/jung-carl/39693/

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A quotation from Grande, Ariana:

«
Whoever said money can’t solve your problems must not have had enough money to solve them.
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https://wist.info/grande-ariana/64496/

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A quotation from Chamfort, Nicolas:

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Love, such as it exists in high society, is merely an exchange of whims and the contact of skins.
[L’amour, tel qu’il existe dans la société, n’est que l’échange de deux fantaisies et le contact de deux épidermes.]
»

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https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/64430/

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A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:

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The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.

[C’est le grand inconvénient des livres nouveaux: ils nous empêchent de lire les anciens.]
»

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https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/22825/

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A quotation from Shaw, George Bernard:

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This is the true in life, the being used up for a recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you hap…
»

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https://wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/3610/

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A quotation from Aldiss, Brian:

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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
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https://wist.info/aldiss-brian/6218/

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@KelsonV Not exactly the feel-good quotation of the day, but ...

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A quotation from Fry, Stephen:

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‘But people, the ordinary faithful, are offended by crude comic blasphemies,’ voices are raised to tell me. Yes indeed. But what of my religion? I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. That is my religion, and every day I am sorely, grossly, heinously and deeply offende…
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https://wist.info/fry-stephen/47906/

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