Submissions

I know an excuse by the speed with which I defend it.

Pila Hall

Interrupting rips your thought off its train as cargo for mine.

Pila Hall

The best time is the rest of the time

Geoffrey Wright, in Work and Recreation and Happiness and Misery

One who stands in the way of progress eventually stands alone.

Geoffrey Wright, in Success and Failure

Growing old is God's way of convincing us we should die.

Geoffrey Wright, in Life and Death

There is no favorable alternative to growing old.

Geoffrey Wright, in Life and Death

Getting to know someone else is best done by someone who knows himself/herself.

Geoffrey Wright, in Men and Women

There is no sure fired way to get hired like there is to get fired

Geoffrey Wright, in Work and Recreation

There is not so much shame in being blamed as there is in failing to take responsibility

Geoffrey Wright, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The best reading is people.

Geoffrey Wright, in Wisdom and Ignorance

One never hears the warning shot that lands between his ears.

Geoffrey Wright, in Altruism and Cynicism

One must suspend disbelief to contemplate a miracle

Geoffrey Wright, in Wisdom and Ignorance

People listen to others for the purpose of finding out why they are listening.

Geoffrey Wright, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I don't mind being funny looking as much as I do being looked at funny.

Geoffrey Wright

I have no one to blame but myself, until I can find somebody else.

Geoffrey Wright, in Altruism and Cynicism

Not being invited is preferable to an invitation where I am not wanted

Geoffrey Wright, in Altruism and Cynicism

I prefer no invitation to an invitation where I am not wanted.

Geoffrey Wright, in Altruism and Cynicism and Wisdom and Ignorance

hinter dem Schweigen steckt manchmal eine lange Nacht.

Nazaré Sanches, in Happiness and Misery

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