WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:23:42 +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 upkeep – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. -- Hocus Pocus (1990) https://wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/37762/ https://wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/37762/#respond Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:45:53 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=37762 Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.


Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Hocus Pocus (1990)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/37762/feed/ 0 37762 Cobbett, William -- Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women, Letter 2, #58 (1829) https://wist.info/cobbett-william/19984/ https://wist.info/cobbett-william/19984/#respond Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:33:40 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=19984 Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.


William Cobbett (1763-1835) English politician, agriculturist, journalist, pamphleteer
Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women, Letter 2, #58 (1829)
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