https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:16:01 +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/stross-charles/36545/ https://wist.info/stross-charles/36545/#respond Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:59:30 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36545 Uneventful. Boring. Tedious. All good adjectives to apply to long-haul travel; much better than exciting, unexpected, and abrupt.

Charles "Charlie" Stross (b. 1964) British writer
The Apocalypse Codex (2012) ]]> https://wist.info/stross-charles/36545/feed/ 0 36545 https://wist.info/kissinger-henry/32859/ https://wist.info/kissinger-henry/32859/#respond Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:53:55 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=32859 The main advantage of being famous is that when you bore people at dinner parties they think it is their fault.

Henry Kissinger (1923-2024) German-American diplomat
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Quoted by James Naughtie in The Spectator (1 Apr 1995). ]]> https://wist.info/kissinger-henry/32859/feed/ 0 32859 https://wist.info/richardson-james/32189/ https://wist.info/richardson-james/32189/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:33:06 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=32189 The great consolation of righteousness is never having to worry whether you’re a bore.

James Richardson (b. 1950) American poet
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays, # 85 (2001) ]]> https://wist.info/richardson-james/32189/feed/ 0 32189 https://wist.info/voltaire/27325/ https://wist.info/voltaire/27325/#respond Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:01:17 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27325 All styles are good, except the tiresome kind.

Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
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