WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 06 May 2026 16:14:51 +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 deserts – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Addison, Joseph -- Cato, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 43ff (1713) https://wist.info/addison-joseph/1441/ https://wist.info/addison-joseph/1441/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=1441 PORTIUS: ‘Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we’ll do more, Sempronius; we’ll deserve it.


Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 43ff (1713)
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This passage was widely known to America's Founders; John Adams paraphrases it in a letter to his wife Abigail (1776-02-18), and George Washington in letters to Nicholas Cooke (1775-10-29) and, most famously, Benedict Arnold (1775-12-05). ]]> https://wist.info/addison-joseph/1441/feed/ 0 1441 Watterson, Bill -- Calvin and Hobbes (1995-01-25) https://wist.info/watterson-bill/4103/ https://wist.info/watterson-bill/4103/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=4103 calvin & hobbes 1995-01-25 excerpt

CALVIN: I wish I could just take a pill to be perfect and I wish I could just push a button and have anything I want.

HOBBES: The American Dream lives on.

CALVIN: Why should I have to work for everything?! It’s like saying I don’t deserve it!


Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-01-25)
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