https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:46:48 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/27895/ https://wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/27895/#respond Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:52:26 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27895 It is said public opinion will not bear it. Really? Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarce any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science, or manners, which it will not bear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Journal (1827)

Also in "Success," Society and Solitude (1870). ]]> https://wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/27895/feed/ 0 27895 https://wist.info/renard-jules/3267/ https://wist.info/renard-jules/3267/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=3267 Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

Jules Renard (1864-1910) French writer
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