Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach! The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering.
February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like.
The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure.
Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven.
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts.
The service was of great array, That they were served with that day. Thus they ate, and made them glad, With such service as they had-- When they had dined, as I you say, Lordis and ladies yede to play; Some to tables and some to chess, With other games more and less.
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'er he be, And sing the songs he loved to hear.
Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]
Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.
My twin and I were wombmates and then roommates. Some day our bodies will be tombmates. (as their souls will be together with those of their husbands in paradise).
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
Fight fire with fire.
When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination.
...it is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.
Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.
The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.
Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
