Quotes
Quotes about Wit
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. [Lat., Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quem tu quanti facias, scio quam cum istis vera sentire.]
Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.
Hath thy heart within thee burned, At evening's calm and holy hour?
Day hath put on his jacket, and around His burning bosom buttoned it with stars.
How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.
I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers Round the day's dead sanctities. I laughed in the morning's eyes.
The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration.
Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.]
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave.
He follows his father with unequal steps. [Lat., Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.]
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
All time management begins with planning.
It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.
Thee anger, in which a person can hold, Only shows the true fear with in!
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
