https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:26:27 +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/austen-jane/70432/ https://wist.info/austen-jane/70432/#respond Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:46:38 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=70432 I believe I drank too much wine last night at Hurstbourne; I know not how else to account for the shaking of my hand today. You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing, by attributing it to this venial error.

Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Letter (1800-11-20) to Cassandra Austen
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/austen-jane/70432/feed/ 0 70432 https://wist.info/ade-george/35368/ https://wist.info/ade-george/35368/#respond Thu, 13 Oct 2016 01:17:14 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=35368 R-E-M-O-R-S-E!
Those dry Martinis did the work for me;
Last night at twelve I felt immense,
Today I feel like thirty cents.,
My eyes are bleared, my coppers hot,
I’ll try to eat, but I cannot.
It is no time for mirth and laughter,
The cold, gray down of the morning after.

George Ade (1866-1944) American writer, newspaper columnist, playwright
The Sultan of Sulu, Act 2 (1903) ]]> https://wist.info/ade-george/35368/feed/ 0 35368