https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 26 May 2026 19:28:32 +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/thurber-james/41477/ https://wist.info/thurber-james/41477/#respond Fri, 24 Apr 2020 19:45:31 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=41477 Men of all degrees should form this prudent habit:
Never serve a rabbit stew before you catch the rabbit.

James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, cartoonist, writer
“Ivory, Apes, and People,” Further Fables for Our Time (1956) ]]> https://wist.info/thurber-james/41477/feed/ 0 41477 https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/22973/ https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/22973/#respond Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:09:23 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=22973 It is as natural and as right for a young man to be imprudent and exaggerated, to live in swoops and circles, and beat about his cage like any other wild thing newly captured, as it is for old men to turn grey, or mothers to love their offspring, or heroes to die for something more valuable than their lives.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37
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