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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-27 · 21:13 UTC

DEMEA: No one has ever plotted out his life’s plan so successfully that he never faces
   New challenges and discoveries brought about by circumstances, the passing of time,
   Or experience itself. Inevitably, you discover you don’t know what you thought you did,
   And the principles we first formed don’t hold up in the face of everyday practice.

[Nunquam ita quisquam bene subducta ratione ad vitam fuit
Quia res, Ætas usus semper aliquid apportet novi
Aliquid moneat, ut illa, quæ te scire credas, nescias
Et, quæ tibi putaris prima, in experiundo ut repudies.]

Terence (186?-159 BC) African-Roman dramatist [Publius Terentius Afer]
Adelphoe [Adelphoi; Adelphi; The Brothers], Act 5, sc. 4, l. 855ff (160 BC) [tr. Christenson (2010), Sc. 22]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/terence/85152/

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-16 · 16:49 UTC

A quotation from Josh Billings

Man kant make cirkumstanses, but he kan take them bi the horns, insted ov the tale.

[Man can’t make circumstances, but he can take them by the horns, instead of the tail.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-05 “Artikles Ov Faith” (1877 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/85012/

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WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2026-06-10 · 08:00 UTC

#circumstance : a fact or condition connected to an event

- French: circonstance

- German: der Umstand

- Italian: circostanza

- Portuguese: circunstância

- Spanish: circunstancia

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-03-30 · 17:46 UTC

A quotation from Joseph Addison

When Men are easy in their Circumstances, they are naturally Enemies to Innovations.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1716-05-16), The Freeholder, No. 42

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83076…

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WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2026-02-05 · 08:00 UTC

#circumstance : that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event

- French: circonstance

- German: der Umstand

- Italian: circostanza

- Portuguese: circunstância

- Spanish: circunstancia

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WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2026-02-05 · 08:00 UTC

#circumstance : that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event

- French: circonstance

- German: der Umstand

- Italian: circostanza

- Portuguese: circunstância

- Spanish: circunstancia

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#circumstance

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-10-03 · 08:00 UTC

#circumstance : that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event

- French: circonstance

- German: der Umstand

- Italian: circostanza

- Portuguese: circunstância

- Spanish: circunstancia

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A daily challenge to chain words together @ https://wordwallgame.com

#circumstance

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-08-29 · 18:51 UTC

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural to suppose, that as much as has been done to-day may be done to-morrow; but on the morrow some difficulty emerges, or some external impediment obstructs. Indolence, interruption, business, and pleasure, all take their turns of retardation; and every long work is lengthened by a thousand causes that can, and ten thousand that cannot, be recounted. Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker’s mind. He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualties.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, “Pope” (1781)

More info about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/78684…

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🪑Jeffrey Sabarese ♫ @[email protected] · 2025-06-11 · 04:27 UTC

I came across a guitar student's email; unread incoming, it was. I thought of her recently, or generally whenever.

Wonder what "CPT" meant? Probably Captain. CPT Kris. It's coming back to me now! Or Star Trek (it was 20 yrs ago or higher)

Kris [edit Kristen W...]

She was a black-Jewish, guitar-playin', star-gazin', comi-con attending [i'd bet money on that] type of chick!

She said "Oy!"
i said, "WTF is that?"

True Romance
#Circumstance

I am 99.9 percent confident that I was taught through popular culture that I can't be attracted to the black astronaut woman. The reasoning being that
"why aren't you attracted to the /other/ black women?"**

I dunno.

But there's something about the black #NASA astronauts on #AmazonPrime (aka freevee?). channel is #Nasa+ (as in ..plus at the end. i dunno. Freevee was better.

#BlackAstronauts

That's also because you can't be a successful black man and date a white woman.

These things are the truths, no?
Is this not how we are supposed to behave?

It's like a Peter-Paul Almond-Joy.
Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.

That is: Do whatever you wan because you're allowed to, and encouraged to do so. Until you're specifically discouraged to do so, because ... you know.

Circumstances

**EDIT
No: B/C successful black men and women "must" propagate

#circumstance #nasa #amazonprime #blackastronauts

🪑Jeffrey Sabarese ♫ @[email protected] · 2025-06-11 · 04:27 UTC

I came across a guitar student's email; unread incoming, it was. I thought of her recently, or generally whenever.

Wonder what "CPT" meant? Probably Captain. CPT Kris. It's coming back to me now! Or Star Trek (it was 20 yrs ago or higher)

Kris [edit Kristen W...]

She was a black-Jewish, guitar-playin', star-gazin', comi-con attending [i'd bet money on that] type of chick!

She said "Oy!"
i said, "WTF is that?"

True Romance
#Circumstance

I am 99.9 percent confident that I was taught through popular culture that I can't be attracted to the black astronaut woman. The reasoning being that
"why aren't you attracted to the /other/ black women?"**

I dunno.

But there's something about the black #NASA astronauts on #AmazonPrime (aka freevee?). channel is #Nasa+ (as in ..plus at the end. i dunno. Freevee was better.

#BlackAstronauts

That's also because you can't be a successful black man and date a white woman.

These things are the truths, no?
Is this not how we are supposed to behave?

It's like a Peter-Paul Almond-Joy.
Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.

That is: Do whatever you wan because you're allowed to, and encouraged to do so. Until you're specifically discouraged to do so, because ... you know.

Circumstances

**EDIT
No: B/C successful black men and women "must" propagate

#circumstance #nasa #amazonprime #blackastronauts

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-05-31 · 08:00 UTC

#circumstance : that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event

- French: circonstance

- German: der Umstand

- Italian: circostanza

- Portuguese: circunstância

- Spanish: circunstancia

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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-04-08 · 23:11 UTC

A quotation from Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances — it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

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WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-01-26 · 08:00 UTC

#circumstance : that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event

- French: circonstance

- German: der Umstand

- Italian: circostanza

- Portuguese: circunstância

- Spanish: circunstancia

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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations

#circumstance

Doktor Overcomma :vepi: @[email protected] · 2025-01-12 · 20:05 UTC

Full Pomp, sans Circumstance
#pomp #circumstance

#pomp #circumstance

lobster 🦞 @[email protected] · 2024-07-23 · 02:26 UTC

Dear Friends,
As we know, #kindness is an #acquired taste. Toddlers #develop it, soon enough. Then it is a question of degree, #circumstance and #choice. Not necessarily in that order, index or notification.
To #celebrate this FAQtoid: 🎉
- Be kinder not a German kinder 😇
- Eat greens and other colours 🕊️
- Mind, your manners ❤️