WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 28 May 2026 19:05:42 +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 willing – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Roosevelt, Eleanor -- You Learn By Living (1960) https://wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/29100/ https://wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/29100/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:30:11 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29100 Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, “It can’t be done.”


Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
You Learn By Living (1960) ]]> https://wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/29100/feed/ 0 29100 Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (compiler), # 1275 (1732) https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/9279/ https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/9279/#respond Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:49:54 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=9279 Destiny leads the willing, but drags the unwilling.


Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (compiler), # 1275 (1732)
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See Seneca the Younger. ]]> https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/9279/feed/ 0 9279