https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:30:36 +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/addison-joseph/71841/ https://wist.info/addison-joseph/71841/#respond Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:43:00 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=71841 An Army of Trumpeters would give as great a Strength to a Cause, as this Confederacy of Tongue-Warriours; who like those military Musicians, content themselves with animating their Friends to Battel, and run out of the Engagement upon the first Onset.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1716-03-26), The Freeholder, No. 28
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Regarding those supporting the Jacobite risings of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries. ]]> https://wist.info/addison-joseph/71841/feed/ 0 71841 https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/29410/ https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/29410/#respond Thu, 21 May 2015 12:06:09 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29410 Many talk like Philosophers, and live like Fools.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (compiler), # 3358 (1732)
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