***TO WITS***

[Frankn]

Waiting to be whipped iz the most uninteresting period of booyhood life.

There are but few men that have character enough to lead a life of idleness.

My son, observe the postage stamp! its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

In the whole of history of the world there is but one thing that money can not buy - the wag of a dogs tail.

Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.

By: Henry Wheeler Shaw "Joseph Billings"

 

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[spartacus53]

Wit After reading those, I wonder who the twit was that wrote them

 

[FarmerChick]

I gotta second Spart on this one. I will post my own

 

[Red James Cash]

Waiting to be whipped iz the most uninteresting period of booyhood life.

Here you go guys I'll decode one for you

Waiting to be punished is usually worse than the punishment

 

[Frankn]

Well I never heard of the guy, but he had a perfect description of tcim.

The trouble with most folks isn't so much there ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.
By: Henry Wheeler Shaw

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

Politeness looks well in every man, except the undertaker.
By: Henry Wheeler shaw

 

[Red James Cash]

Isnt that the truth Frankn

 

[spartacus53]

Apparently your Henry Wheeler Shaw didn't fair too well in English

RJC, do I need to decode that for you

 

[Frankn]

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not ask to lend money.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is differences of opinion that make horseraces.

As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out.

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had its rights.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get full value of a joy you must have somebody to devide it with.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

You can straighten a worm, but the crook is in him and only waiting.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

My books are water: those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water.
By: Samuel L. Clemens "Mark Twain"

 

[Red James Cash]

Apparently your Henry Wheeler Shaw didn't fair too well in English

RJC, do I need to decode that for you

Youre just jealous spart because i understand each and every one at first glance

 

[ticm]

Wit After reading those, I wonder who the twit was that wrote them

Well we know who rewrote them. Same type.

 

[spartacus53]

It's apparent that some are just a little better versed in English, so I'm far from jealous.. It's impossible to make sense of something if the wrong words are used

The trouble with most folks isn't so much there ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.
By: Henry Wheeler Shaw

 

[Red James Cash]

Thats a minor inconvenience

 

[FarmerChick]

It's apparent that some are just a little better versed in English, so I'm far from jealous.. It's impossible to make sense of something if the wrong words are used

The trouble with most folks isn't so much there ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.
By: Henry Wheeler Shaw

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is differences of opinion that make horseraces.


(I like this one. It has a real ring of truth in it.) and I am typing in bold!!!!





yea!

observe a postage stamp my son. (WELL DUH anything with glue will stick to its final destination MOST times.)


sure they are 'kinda' witty. Interesting read.

 

[Frankn]

ticm, your exposing your soul. I see you know yourself pretty well. You picked out the right one.

Spart, it's called style. Everyone has there own brand.

 

[Frankn]

Get your facts first, and then you can distort'em as much as you please.
By: Clemens Is it possible that he knew ticm?

 

[spartacus53]

Lack of proper English is not style, quite the opposite I think

 

[ticm]

ticm, your exposing your soul. I see you know yourself pretty well. You picked out the right one.

Spart, it's called style. Everyone has there own brand.

You know nothing John Snow.

 

[Frankn]

Here's a list of words with his personal definitions. By: Ambrose Bierce

Absolute Monarchy -- One in which the Monarch does as he pleases as long as he pleases the assassins.

Adage -- Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

Barometer -- An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Bore -- A person that talks when you want him to listen.

Brain -- An apparatus in which we think that we think.

Conservative -- A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

Coward -- One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Cynic -- A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Edible -- Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Envy -- Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Faith -- Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

 

[Frankn]

Spart, some of these guys go way back. I know Clemons goes back to the 1800's My listings go back to 1455. Grammar, spelling and the meanings of words have changed. I show them as in the original form with no corrections. I hope the Mods don't censor them. frank

 

[spartacus53]

Again, few read the word and even realized the wrong word was injected. The word I'm talking about originated back in 1100, preceding and of the fore mentioned yokels.