WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:51:57 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg inventory – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Parker, Dorothy -- “Inventory,” Life (11 Nov 1926) https://wist.info/parker-dorothy/41139/ https://wist.info/parker-dorothy/41139/#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:17:55 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=41139 Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Four be the things I’d been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.


Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American writer, poet, wit
“Inventory,” Life (11 Nov 1926)
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