https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:53:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/butler-octavia/47024/ https://wist.info/butler-octavia/47024/#respond Thu, 20 May 2021 18:12:00 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=47024 “He’s a fair man.”
I looked at him, startled.
“I said fair,” he repeated. “Not likable.”

Octavia Butler (1947–2006) American writer
Kindred, ch. 4, sec. 6 (1979) ]]> https://wist.info/butler-octavia/47024/feed/ 0 47024 https://wist.info/franklin-benjamin/29276/ https://wist.info/franklin-benjamin/29276/#respond Fri, 08 May 2015 13:39:16 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29276 The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures;
the Knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard’s Almanack (May 1755) ]]> https://wist.info/franklin-benjamin/29276/feed/ 0 29276 https://wist.info/bramah-ernest/29099/ https://wist.info/bramah-ernest/29099/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:28:43 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29099 There are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice upon a dark night.

Ernest Bramah (1868–1942) English author [Ernest Brammah Smith]
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