WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 25 May 2026 11:55:31 +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 fall short – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 McLaughlin, Mignon -- The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 7 (1963) https://wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/79522/ https://wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/79522/#respond Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:44:52 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=79522 Life’s most painful condition: to be almost a celebrity.


Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 7 (1963)
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet
“Table-Talk”
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/longfellow-henry-wadsworth/47456/feed/ 0 47456 Broun, Heywood -- “Sport for Art’s Sake,” Vanity Fair (Sep 1921) https://wist.info/broun-heywood/37129/ https://wist.info/broun-heywood/37129/#respond Wed, 31 May 2017 17:50:17 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=37129 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.


Heywood Broun (1888-1939) American journalist, author
“Sport for Art’s Sake,” Vanity Fair (Sep 1921)
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