WyzWmn's Words to the Wise

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. – Carl Reiner

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. – Thomas Szasz

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. – G. K. Chesterton

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. – Anne Bradstreet

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. – Charles Baudelaire

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. – Judith Martin

North Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic. – Dan Rather

I repeat…that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist. – Benjamin Disraeli

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. – John Stuart Mill