Franz Wisner quotes

“Czech Republics worst pick up line: What's a nice place like this doing around a women like you?”
-- Franz Wisner

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“Surrender. That's an interesting term. We tend to see all forms of surrender as negative--war, sports, highway on-ramps. You'd never hear us describing a relationship as a type of surrender. But maybe we should. Is it wrong to cede the solo to the duet. Surrender doesn't mean you lose, only that you no longer wish to fight.”
-- Franz Wisner

Source : Franz Wisner (2009). “How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom”, p.74, Macmillan

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“Concentrate on the goodness in the other, rather than the difference.”
-- Franz Wisner

Source : Franz Wisner (2009). “How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom”, p.74, Macmillan

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“Never wear anything on the road you wouldnt wear at home.”
-- Franz Wisner

#Home Quotes

“I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.”

“Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.”

“His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.”

“Czech Republics worst pick up line: What's a nice place like this doing around a women like you?”

“She's a legend. She's really huge in the Czech Republic. Everywhere, actually.”

“We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.”

“You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.”

“There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.”

“Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.”

Source : Of Edward Lear and James Thurber. Quoted in Neil A Grauer Remember Laughter (1994).

“We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.”