WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:29:59 +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 timeliness – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Hoffer, Eric -- Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 276 (1955) https://wist.info/hoffer-eric/82838/ https://wist.info/hoffer-eric/82838/#respond Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:10:13 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=82838 A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.


Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 276 (1955)
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Also see Rogers (1928), Muggeridge (1972). ]]> https://wist.info/hoffer-eric/82838/feed/ 0 82838 Lorimer, George Horace -- Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, ch. 10 (1903) https://wist.info/lorimer-george-horace/26029/ https://wist.info/lorimer-george-horace/26029/#respond Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:41:02 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=26029 Always appoint an hour at which you’ll see a man, and if he’s late a minute don’t bother with him. A fellow who can be late when his own interests are at stake is pretty sure to be when yours are.


George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) American journalist, author, magazine editor
Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, ch. 10 (1903)
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