WIST - Wish I'd Said That - Quotations

Graphics/memes I've created of quotations I particularly like, taken from https://wist.info, my personal, curated quotations collection. Click through on the image to get the full quotation, full citation, and more.

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Social Entrepreneurship

"The Gospel of Wealth," Part 1, North American Review (1889-06) - Carnegie, Andrew | WIST Quotations Quotations

"Credo," # 10 (1901) - Hubbard, Elbert | WIST Quotations Quotations

a woman with an interesting quote about the meaning of her name on it's image

"A Defence of Poetry" (1821-03, pub. 1840) - Shelley, Percy Bysshe | WIST Quotations

English Writers

Doing Nothing

Wasting Time

"On Being Idle," Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) - Jerome, Jerome K. | WIST Quotations

a quote by mark de montagne on the subject of his argument with bravado and commandment

Essays, Book 3, ch. 11 "Of Cripples [Des Boyteux]" (1587) (3.11) (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)] - Montaigne, Michel de | WIST Quotations Quotations

My Cat

"Apology for Raymond Sebond [Apologie de Raimond de Sebonde]" (1588–1592), Essays, Book 2, ch. 12 (1595) [tr. Ives (1925)] - Montaigne, Michel de | WIST Quotations

a poster with an image of a man wearing a red robe and headdress

The Divine Comedy [Divina Commedia], Book 2 "Purgatorio," Canto 11, l. 100ff (11.100-102) [Oderisi of Gubbio] (1314) [tr. Sayers (1955)] - Dante Alighieri | WIST Quotations

a man with glasses and a quote on it that says, remember today is the tomorrow you

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Part 10 "How I Conquered Worry" (1948) - Carnegie, Dale | WIST Quotations

a statue with the words but time is flying, flying beyond recall, while we charmed with love of our theme, lingerer around each detail

Georgics [Georgica], Book 3, l. 284ff (3.284-285) (29 BC) [tr. Fairclough (Loeb) (1916)] - Virgil | WIST Quotations

My Memoirs [Mes Mémoires], ch. 113 (1852-1856) [tr. Waller (1907); 1826-1830: Vol. 3, Book 2, ch. 10] - Dumas, Alexandre pere | WIST Quotations

a man in a suit and tie with a quote about dangerous things to do on his face

Oscar Wilde

Creative Commons

"The Critic as Artist," Part 2 [Gilbert], Intentions (1891) - Wilde, Oscar | WIST Quotations Quotations

an older man sitting at a desk with a typewriter and purple background that says, old age is a special problem for me because i've never been able to shed

"E. B. White: Notes and Comment by Author," interview by Israel Shenker, New York Times (1969-07-11) - White, E. B. | WIST Quotations

White - Old age is a special problem for me because Ive never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about nineteen - wist.info quote

a man with a moustache on his face and the words, if you would know what the lord god thinks of money

(Attributed) - Baring, Maurice | WIST Quotations

National Archives

The Government

The Mind

Speech, National Archives (1952-12-15) - Truman, Harry S | WIST Quotations

Truman - Government regulate matters mind and spirit commit suicide - wist.info quote

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The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 6, l. 180ff (6.180) [Odysseus to Nausicaa] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Rieu (1946)] - Homer | WIST Quotations Quotations