WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:26:27 +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 peculiarity – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Adams, Douglas -- Dirk Gently No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 10 (1988) https://wist.info/adams-douglas/74183/ https://wist.info/adams-douglas/74183/#respond Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:19:47 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=74183 “You,” said Sally Mills, “are very strange.”
“Only,” said Dirk, “as strange as I need to be.”


Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Dirk Gently No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 10 (1988)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/adams-douglas/74183/feed/ 0 74183 Bacon, Francis -- Essay (1612), “Of Beauty,” Essays, No. 43 (1625) https://wist.info/bacon-francis/11515/ https://wist.info/bacon-francis/11515/#respond Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:08:47 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=11515 There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.


Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
Essay (1612), “Of Beauty,” Essays, No. 43 (1625)
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