WyzWmn's Words to the Wise

No good deed goes unpunished – Clare Booth Luce

Expecting the world to treat you fairly
because you are a good person
is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you
because you are a vegetarian – Dennis Wholey

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back – Carl Sagan

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be. – Jim Horning

Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? – George Price

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. – Anne-Sophie Swetchine

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before – Robert Lynd

Health is not values till sickness comes – Dr Thomas Fuller

I never know how much of what I say is true. – Bette Midler

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. – Aaron Rose