WyzWmn's Words to the Wise

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. – Henry David Thoreau

I know nothing about sex because I was always married. – Zsa Zsa Gabor

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. – Charles de Gaulle

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. – Peter Drucker

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. – Douglas Adams

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. – Ellen Goodman

Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all. – William Goldman

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. – Henri-Frederic Amiel

I always wanted a happy ending….Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. – Gilda Radner

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief; he will be satisfied with bad ones. – Bertrand Russell