Posted on September 23, 2022September 24, 2022 “There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”—Dorothy Parker, American poet, 1893-1967 (editor’s note: this is a substitute for the “You can….” quotation. Our apologies.)
Posted on August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 “Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.”—Ogden Nash, American poet, 1902-1971
Posted on August 21, 2021 “Wit is the only wall…Between us and the dark.”—Mark Van Doren, American poet, 1894-1972
Posted on February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 “Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.”—Robert Frost, American poet, 1874-1963
Posted on January 17, 2021January 17, 2021 “How men long for celebrity! Some would willingly sacrifice their lives for fame, and not a few would rather be known by their crimes than not known at all.”—John Sinclair; American poet (from Flint, Michigan); 1941- (#JohnSinclair)
Posted on July 28, 2020July 28, 2020 “Nature fits all her children with something to do; he who would write and can’t write, can surely review.”—James Russell Lowell, American poet, 1819-1891
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