https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 09 Nov 2026 23:20:49 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/74668/ https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/74668/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:40:48 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=74668 It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1872-10), “The Poet at the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

Collected in The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, ch. 10 (1872). ]]> https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/74668/feed/ 0 74668 https://wist.info/gilbert-w-s/7643/ https://wist.info/gilbert-w-s/7643/#respond Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:53:58 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=7643 I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I’m teeming with a lot o’ news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I’m very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) English playwright [William Schwenck Gilbert]
The Pirates of Penzance (1879) [music by Arthur Sullivan] ]]> https://wist.info/gilbert-w-s/7643/feed/ 0 7643