Quotes
Quotes about Wit
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.
All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
... a place where they dispense with justice.
To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat.
At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er, Each smooth as those that mutually deceive, And for their falsehood each despising each.
One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.
The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple-tart.
And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring Letters cowslips on the hill.
Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexibleâhe is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.
Creation is a drug I can't do without.
Begin with another's to end with your own.
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.]
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]
