https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:22:31 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/inge-william-ralph/31460/ https://wist.info/inge-william-ralph/31460/#respond Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:42:43 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=31460 The democracy is a ready victim to shibboleths and catchwords, as all demagogues know too well.

William Ralph Inge (1860–1954) English prelate [Dean Inge]
“Our Present Discontents,” Outspoken Essays: First Series (1919) ]]> https://wist.info/inge-william-ralph/31460/feed/ 0 31460 https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/6746/ https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/6746/#respond Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:32:54 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=6746 Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque, Part 2”
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Playing off of the Biblical passages Luke 4:4 and Matthew 4:4, in turn from Deuteronomy 8:3.

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