Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm.
We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. [It., La vostra nominanza e color d'erba, Che viene e va; e quei la discolora Per cui ell' esce della terra acerba.]
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
My family begins with me, your family ends with you.
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.âGary Cooper, on his decision to not take the leading role in Gone With The Wind.
Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck.
To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me too but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe.
Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide.
I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally.
Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important.
