WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:31:49 +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 improve – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Yeats, William Butler -- Deirdre (1907) https://wist.info/yeats-william-butler/32002/ https://wist.info/yeats-william-butler/32002/#respond Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:31:32 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=32002 I have believed the best of every man,
And find that to believe it is enough
To make a bad man show him at his best,
Or even a good man swing his lantern higher.

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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish poet and dramatist
Deirdre (1907) ]]> https://wist.info/yeats-william-butler/32002/feed/ 0 32002 Kettering, Charles F. -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/kettering-charles/30974/ https://wist.info/kettering-charles/30974/#respond Fri, 09 Oct 2015 16:33:32 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=30974 The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.


Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958) American inventor, engineer, researcher, businessman
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/kettering-charles/30974/feed/ 0 30974 Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 369 (1.4.369) (1606) https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/3527/ https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/3527/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=3527 ALBANY: Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.


William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 369 (1.4.369) (1606)
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