https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:06:25 +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 https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/addison-joseph/34877/ https://wist.info/addison-joseph/34877/#respond Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:18:21 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34877 CATO: Content thyself to be obscurely good.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
The post of honour is a private station.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 4, sc. 4, l. 139ff (1713)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/addison-joseph/34877/feed/ 0 34877 https://wist.info/cuomo-mario/29664/ https://wist.info/cuomo-mario/29664/#respond Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:14:24 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29664 Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort un-thought of two generations ago. We’ve never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems. The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now — aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit. All around us we have seen success in the world’s terms become ultimate and desperate failure.

Mario Cuomo (1932-2015) American politician
Commencement Address, Iona College (3 Jun 1984) ]]> https://wist.info/cuomo-mario/29664/feed/ 0 29664 https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27774/ https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27774/#respond Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:46:08 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27774 It is certain that great prosperity and worldly glory are no sure tokens of God’s love.

Thomas Brooks (1608-1680) English Puritan divine, writer
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