Submissions

One might have thought that the only use of culture was to enable one to talk nonsense with distinction.

William Somerset Maugham, The summing up, iliteracy picture, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Liebe spricht man lange aus, damit man sich an deren Kürze nicht erinnert.

Nazaré Sanches, in Love and Hate and Love and Hate

If you want to write a good poem, do not tell the truth.
The truth is so prosaic. To lie, you must be creative.
'Poetic license' is what we call the lie.

Fred Babbin, I'm a poet, in Art and Literature

Life and happiness are everything. Happiness without life is impossible, life without happiness is deplorable

God planted the Tree of Knowledge, but he forgot the Tree of Wisdom, and we've been fking up ever since.

Fred Babbin, I'm a poet, in Science and Religion

Life is interesting, but not the way you thought it would be.

Fred Babbin, I am a poet

"To understand the hearts of others, you must first understand your own."

Kelli Harrah, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Dorothy Parker

"if you do not know where you have been,you will
never know where you are going."
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JOSEPH P.MARTINO

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotl, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Every freedom is a burden and every burden is a freedom.

Dr Howard Maynard

Worry about things you can do something about, don't worry about things you can't anything about.

, Just came off the top of my head one day. (apologies if someone else already wrote/said this)., in Happiness and Misery

"I have seen many horns in my life but i have never once come across a halo"

Midgard Morningstar, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

"No great artist could ever be sane for it is the sane who paint apples as apples ,but for those who live in fantasy there is no end of possibiltys to an apple"

Midgard Morningstar, in Art and Literature and Altruism and Cynicism

"Fame is no longer a measure of talent , it is simply a measure of idiots"

Midgard Morningstar, in Altruism and Cynicism and Art and Literature

Failure begins not when you are beaten down but when you give up.

Lowell Boggs, in Success and Failure and Wealth and Poverty

"the only time "failure" should come before "success" is in a dictionary."
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JOSEPH P.MARTINO, in Success and Failure

"the only time "failure" should come before "success" is in a dictionary."
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JOSEPH P.MARTINO, in Success and Failure

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde, in Wisdom and Ignorance

More often than not civilization brings an end to civility.

, in Wisdom and Ignorance