WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +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 displeasure – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Lewis, Sinclair -- Work of Art, ch. 21 (1934) https://wist.info/lewis-sinclair/30468/ https://wist.info/lewis-sinclair/30468/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:32:56 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=30468 Myron reflected that there are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.


Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) American novelist, playwright
Work of Art, ch. 21 (1934) ]]> https://wist.info/lewis-sinclair/30468/feed/ 0 30468 ~Proverbs and Sayings -- Arab proverb https://wist.info/proverbs/26955/ https://wist.info/proverbs/26955/#respond Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:43:52 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=26955 The worst things:
To try to sleep and sleep not.
To wait for one who comes not.
To try to please and please not.


Proverbs, Sayings, and Adages
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