Quotes
Quotes about Wit
A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd.
'T is fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
The mildest manners with the bravest mind.
Fly, dotard, fly!
With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies;
And sure he will: for Wisdom never lies.
Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above
With ease can save each object of his love;
Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.
When now Aurora, daughter of the dawn,
With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn.
There with commutual zeal we both had strove
In acts of dear benevolence and love:
Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.
The leader, mingling with the vulgar host,
Is in the common mass of matter lost.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!
Heav'd on Olympus tott'ring Ossa stood;
On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.
And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
The ruins of himself! now worn away
With age, yet still majestic in decay.
Note 41.The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
Oliver Goldsmith: The Traveller, line 137.
'T was when the sea was roaring
With hollow blasts of wind,
A damsel lay deploring,
All on a rock reclin'd.
If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares,
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.
How happy could I be with either,
Were t' other dear charmer away!
Remote from cities liv'd a swain,
Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;
His head was silver'd o'er with age,
And long experience made him sage.
And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Would with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
