https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +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/addison-joseph/82267/ https://wist.info/addison-joseph/82267/#respond Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:06:56 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=82267 LUCIUS: From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 5, sc. 4, l. 106ff (1713)
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After Cato's suicide during the civil war against Julius Caesar. ]]> https://wist.info/addison-joseph/82267/feed/ 0 82267 https://wist.info/bolt-robert/76117/ https://wist.info/bolt-robert/76117/#respond Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:04:12 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=76117 LAWRENCE: (calling after him) Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people. A silly people! Greedy, barbarous, and cruel — as you are!

Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist
Lawrence of Arabia, Part 1, sc. 106 (1962) [with Michael Wilson]
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After Sherif Ali has killed the Arab guide Lawrence was using for being of the wrong tribe to use one of the Harith tribe's wells. ]]> https://wist.info/bolt-robert/76117/feed/ 0 76117