WyzWmn's Words to the Wise

When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. – Edgar Watson Howe

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. – James Thurber

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. – Harriet Lerner

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – HH The Dalia Lama

Mistakes are part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Al Franken

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. – Nikki Giovanni

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. – Eleanor Roosevelt

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. – Martin Gardner

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge’s chamber believes in a unprejudiced point of view. – Lillian Hellman

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. – Ludwig Wittgenstein