https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 01 May 2026 20:52:34 +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/kerr-jean/83488/ https://wist.info/kerr-jean/83488/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:48:11 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=83488 In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr’s law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.

Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Essay (1955-11), “Our Gingerbread Dream House,” Ladies Home Journal
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Reprinted as "The Kerr-Hilton" in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957). ]]> https://wist.info/kerr-jean/83488/feed/ 0 83488 https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/75200/ https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/75200/#respond Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:12:01 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=75200 Chuse such Pleasures, as recreate much, and cost little.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 61 (1725)
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