“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”There’s a treasure trove in the sparks and snarks of Oscar Wilde. Some I’ve used in my email signatures, such as: “I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.” This rings true for any writer.
Another great call of our Wilde: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Now that’s poetry. Occasionally I find such a line that teases the urge for verse. For another example, nearly 400 years ago, French mathematician Blaise Pascal noted: “Most of our problems proceed from our inability to sit quietly in a small room.” Let that one sink in. Seems timeless.As for prescience, there are plenty of political comments from yesteryear that can send tingles down the spine of any voter today.
Another great call of our Wilde: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Now that’s poetry. Occasionally I find such a line that teases the urge for verse. For another example, nearly 400 years ago, French mathematician Blaise Pascal noted: “Most of our problems proceed from our inability to sit quietly in a small room.” Let that one sink in. Seems timeless.As for prescience, there are plenty of political comments from yesteryear that can send tingles down the spine of any voter today.