WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:36:25 +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 affront – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 34 (1725) https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/74902/ https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/74902/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:11:42 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=74902 Scorn Affronts: let Dogs Bark, and Asses Kick.


Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 34 (1725)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/74902/feed/ 0 74902 Addison, Joseph -- Cato, Act 2, sc. 5, l. 136ff (1713) https://wist.info/addison-joseph/69674/ https://wist.info/addison-joseph/69674/#respond Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:55:46 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=69674 SYPHAX: Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.


Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 2, sc. 5, l. 136ff (1713)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/addison-joseph/69674/feed/ 0 69674 Richardson, James -- “Vectors: 56 Aphorisms and Ten-second Essays,” Michigan Quarterly Review, # 18 (Spring 1999) https://wist.info/richardson-james/49115/ https://wist.info/richardson-james/49115/#respond Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:56:06 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=49115 The wound hurts less than your desire to wound me.


James Richardson (b. 1950) American poet
“Vectors: 56 Aphorisms and Ten-second Essays,” Michigan Quarterly Review, # 18 (Spring 1999)
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