Wiserafter90
@wiserafter90.bsky.social
Career mostly as an antiquarian bookseller, retired at age 86 after 64 years. Restored circa 1815 home. Avid reader, collector of quotes, lover of languages and history. Happily married for a second time after 67 years with my first love. 93 now.
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"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them." Sydney Smith. "Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you." Elsie deWolfe.
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them." Sydney Smith. "Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you." Elsie deWolfe.
"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." Martin Luther King, Jr. "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." Shakespeare.
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." Martin Luther King, Jr. "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." Shakespeare.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead. "We are much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are." Adele Davis.
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead. "We are much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are." Adele Davis.
Sign on pub: Free beer next Tuesday - and we'll release those files also.
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Sign on pub: Free beer next Tuesday - and we'll release those files also.
"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control." Abraham Lincoln.
November 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control." Abraham Lincoln.
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." George Washington Carver.
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." George Washington Carver.
"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?" Bob Hope. "Gravity cannot be held responsible for people failing in love." Albert Einstein.
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?" Bob Hope. "Gravity cannot be held responsible for people failing in love." Albert Einstein.
Remembering a joke from WWII. The military officer to the female soldiers - now brought up to date: The Pedo-in-chief to the teen- age beauty contestants, "Close your eyes, girls, I'm coming through."
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Remembering a joke from WWII. The military officer to the female soldiers - now brought up to date: The Pedo-in-chief to the teen- age beauty contestants, "Close your eyes, girls, I'm coming through."
"As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled." Quentin Crisp. "Happiness is not so much ín having as sharing." Norman MacEwen.
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled." Quentin Crisp. "Happiness is not so much ín having as sharing." Norman MacEwen.
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." Henry Ward Beecher. "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." John Milton.
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." Henry Ward Beecher. "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." John Milton.
"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get though, but how many can get through to you." Mortimer J. Adler. "Í am fortunate in having known several people to whom I hated to say goodbye." Wiserafter90.
November 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get though, but how many can get through to you." Mortimer J. Adler. "Í am fortunate in having known several people to whom I hated to say goodbye." Wiserafter90.
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." Bertrand Russell. "Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." Carl Sandburg.
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." Bertrand Russell. "Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." Carl Sandburg.
"I know a little garden close/ Set thick with lily and red rose,/ Where I might wander if I might/ From dewy dawn to dewy night./ And have one with me wandering." William Morris. "At my age, if it were not for medical appointments, I would have no social life." Wiserafter90.
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
"I know a little garden close/ Set thick with lily and red rose,/ Where I might wander if I might/ From dewy dawn to dewy night./ And have one with me wandering." William Morris. "At my age, if it were not for medical appointments, I would have no social life." Wiserafter90.
"Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but wants only to be provoked." Katherine Anne Porter. "Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." Arthur Wing Pinero.
November 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
"Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but wants only to be provoked." Katherine Anne Porter. "Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." Arthur Wing Pinero.
"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with ones sympathy the gloom of someone else." Arnold Burnett. "Libraries: Here is where people,/ One frequently finds,/ Lower their voices/ And raise their minds." Richard Armour.
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with ones sympathy the gloom of someone else." Arnold Burnett. "Libraries: Here is where people,/ One frequently finds,/ Lower their voices/ And raise their minds." Richard Armour.
"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others." Archibald Rutledge. "The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the only thing we can never give enough of is love." Henry Miller.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others." Archibald Rutledge. "The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the only thing we can never give enough of is love." Henry Miller.
"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions." Jessamyn West. "The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." Omar N. Bradley.
November 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions." Jessamyn West. "The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." Omar N. Bradley.
"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do." Olin Miller. "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgen). "I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains." Anne Frank.
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do." Olin Miller. "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgen). "I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains." Anne Frank.
"I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." Adlai E. Stevenson. "Democracy is the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people." Harry Emerson Fosdick.
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." Adlai E. Stevenson. "Democracy is the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people." Harry Emerson Fosdick.
"That's the thing about books. They're alive on their own terms. Reading is like traveling with an argumentative, unpredictable good friend. It's an endless open exchange." Alice Smith. "Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius." Edward Gibbon.
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"That's the thing about books. They're alive on their own terms. Reading is like traveling with an argumentative, unpredictable good friend. It's an endless open exchange." Alice Smith. "Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius." Edward Gibbon.
Pepper, our 12 pound toy poodle, thinks she is responsible for defending us from every threat. If a bird lands on the front porch she barks furiously. She is absolutely indognant.
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Pepper, our 12 pound toy poodle, thinks she is responsible for defending us from every threat. If a bird lands on the front porch she barks furiously. She is absolutely indognant.
"If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along; if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution." Carl Sandburg. "One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats." Iris Murdoch.
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along; if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution." Carl Sandburg. "One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats." Iris Murdoch.
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin. "Imagination was given to man to console him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." Horace Walpole.
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin. "Imagination was given to man to console him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." Horace Walpole.
@adventurer56.bsky.social We are pleased to announce that what's his name has passed away. There will be a vast number of rejoicers busily forgetting his meager accomplishments.
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
@adventurer56.bsky.social We are pleased to announce that what's his name has passed away. There will be a vast number of rejoicers busily forgetting his meager accomplishments.
"The specialist learns more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything." Paul Dickson. "I always have a quotation about everything--it saves original thinking." Dorothy Parker.
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"The specialist learns more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything." Paul Dickson. "I always have a quotation about everything--it saves original thinking." Dorothy Parker.