https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:13:37 +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 https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/overbury-thomas/38932/ https://wist.info/overbury-thomas/38932/#respond Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:35:53 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=38932 The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry, is somewhat like a potatoe, the only good thing is under ground.

Thomas Overbury (1581–1613) English poet
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Referenced in John Ireland, Letters and Poems by the Late Mr. John Henderson (1786). Variant: "The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors, is like a potatoe, the only good belonging to him is under ground." -- The Lady's Monthly Museum (June 1807). ]]> https://wist.info/overbury-thomas/38932/feed/ 0 38932 https://wist.info/higginson-t-w/31210/ https://wist.info/higginson-t-w/31210/#respond Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:13:16 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=31210 Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) American minister, author, abolitionist, soldier
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