{"id":3627,"date":"2010-01-18T21:32:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T02:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2018-10-08T05:07:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:07:22","slug":"wise-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wise-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise words&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Anyone that knows me likely also knows that I love (and collect, and occasionally share) wise words and quotations. On the weekend I was rummaging through some paper-stacks that have lain relatively undisturbed for years in my somewhat-organized home library, and I re-encountered an assortment of odd gems\u2014including the following good-uns\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>I quote others only the better to express myself.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=2255\" target=\"_blank\">Michel de Montaigne<\/a> (1533-1592 )<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>We are no more than God\u2019s imagination about himself.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Thomas Mann (1875-1955)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">The world is a tragedy to those who feel,<br \/>\nbut a comedy to those who think.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Horace Walpole (1717-1797)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">A child of five would understand this.<br \/>\nSend someone to fetch a child of five!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Groucho Marx (1890-1977)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=527\" target=\"_blank\">Albert Einstein<\/a> (1879-1955)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>To him who is in fear, everything rustles.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Socrates (469 BC-399 BC)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Education is when you read the fine print.<br \/>\nExperience is what you get if you don\u2019t.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Pete Seger (1919\u2014\u00a0 )<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Everything has been thought of before\u2014<br \/>\nthe problem is to think of it again.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014French proverb<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Many a scarecrow serves as a roost of the enlightened crow.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014(unknown)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">The man who can\u2019t visualize a horse<br \/>\ngalloping on a tomato is an idiot.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Andr\u00e9 Breton (1896-1966)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Please feel free to share with me the quotations that touch your own soul, tickle your fancy, or blow your mind, OK? You can contact me <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/contact.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone that knows me likely also knows that I love (and collect, and occasionally share) wise words and quotations. On the weekend I was rummaging through some paper-stacks that have lain relatively undisturbed for years in my somewhat-organized home library, and I re-encountered an assortment of odd gems\u2014including the following good-uns\u2026 I quote others only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,8,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16098,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions\/16098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}