WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:41:45 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg retrospective – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Frank, Anne -- Diary (1944-05-07) [tr. Massotty (1995)] https://wist.info/frank-anne/86210/ https://wist.info/frank-anne/86210/#respond Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:52:44 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=86210 What’s done can’t be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.

[Gedane zaken nemen geen keer, maar wel kan men verder voorkomen.]


Anne Frank (1929–1945) German-Dutch Jewish diarist
Diary (1944-05-07) [tr. Massotty (1995)]

(Source (Dutch)). Another translation:

What's done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again.
[tr. Mooyaart-Doubleday (1951)]

 ]]> https://wist.info/frank-anne/86210/feed/ 0 86210 Anouilh, Jean -- Léocadia [Time Remembered], Act 2, sc. 2 [Duchess] (1939) [tr. Moyes (1955)] https://wist.info/anouilh-jean/63556/ https://wist.info/anouilh-jean/63556/#respond Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:14:06 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=63556 When you’re forty, half of you belongs to the past — and when you’re seventy, nearly all of you —


Jean Anouilh (1910–1987) French dramatist
Léocadia [Time Remembered], Act 2, sc. 2 [Duchess] (1939) [tr. Moyes (1955)] ]]> https://wist.info/anouilh-jean/63556/feed/ 0 63556 Levant, Oscar -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/levant-oscar/41895/ https://wist.info/levant-oscar/41895/#respond Thu, 28 May 2020 21:03:06 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=41895 Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.


Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American pianist, composer, actor, wit
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