THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, August 13, 1995 TAG: 9508130268
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 07 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: Focus: On the Street
SOURCE: Bill Reed
LENGTH: Medium: 81 lines
The world is full of pithy say-ings.
Herewith, some of this so-called wisdom that could or should have been set to record in one of those moldy library anthologies:
Fine writing doesn't necessarily require good penmanship.
- Wendy Fitzgerald, aspiring romance novel author from Chickasaw, Miss.
Writing comes from the gut, so don't sit down to the typewriter after eating tacos and refried beans, dude.
- ``Turk'' Hemingway of Vero Beach, Fla., freelance contributor to ``Surfer'' magazine
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
- Ethel Watts Mumford, a student of human nature
Honor is earned, not bestowed.
- Benedict Arnold, American Revolutionary War general who thought the British were gonna win
Folding under pressure beats getting smushed by insurmountable odds.
- Marshall Henri Phillipe Petain, whose Vichy regime in France knuckled under to the Nazis in the early days of World War II.
Dead men tell no tales, but live ones never seem to shut up.
- From the lips of a barroom philosopher watching the O. J. Simpson trial on TV
All that glitters is not gold, but it beats plastic for evening-wear accessories.
- Myrna Lettmann, buyer for an exclusive boutique at the Beach
Give me a brave heart and a cool head and I'll give you the slickest inside trader in the business.
- Ivan Boesky, convicted Wall Street securities trader
No means yes only in poker and international diplomacy.
- Chairman of the ethics panel investigating Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore.
Ghosts lurk only in the minds of the superstitious and the guilt-ridden.
- Roscoe Poe, proprietor of House of Horrors on the resort strip
No guts, no glory - no glory, no IRS headaches.
- Darryl Strawberry, former Met, former Dodger, now-Yankee, who got slammed by the IRS for failing to report earnings reaped from autographing baseball cards
A picture is worth a thousand words, but there are some I'd just as soon not see.
- The same barroom philosopher watching the O. J. trial
Small pitchers have big ears - and a so-so fastball.
- Leo Durocher, tough-guy baseball player and manager, who also said, ``Nice guys finish last.''
A change-up is an off-speed pitch to a batter expecting a fast ball. A curve ball is a pitch that seems to drop off the end of the table. A highball isn't a pitch but it eventually makes the batter fall off the stool in front of the table.
- A former Major Leaguer now undergoing substance-abuse treatment
You can take the man out of the country, but you can't take the country out of his CD collection.
- Country/Western star Clint Black
Rush is right - Pat Buchanan is further right.
- A member of the Pat Buchanan
for President campaign committee
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
- Eric Hoffer, longshoreman, author and philosopher
The closest a person ever comes to perfection is when he (or she) fills out a job application form.
- From the book of ``Peter's Quotations'' (Beauty pageant contestants, take note.)
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may - but watch out for those thorns!
- The last guy who married Roseanne Barr Pentland Arnold
Early to bed, early to rise makes a man boring and grumpy in the morning.
- Ruby Franklin, waitress on the early-bird shift at a Route 58 truck stop
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one
who hopes they are.
- Chauncey DePew, American lawyer, railway director, politician and orator by CNB