WyzWmn's Words to the Wise

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. – Benjamin Franklin

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. – Edward Abbey

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. – Lewis Thomas

A bully is not reasonable – he is persuaded only by threats.- Marie De France, 12th Century

I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. – Bette Davis

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. – Elbert Hubbard

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. – Barbra Streisand