Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act,--act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.
Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.
The best throw with the dice is to throw them away.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. - The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortly Montagu.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
What will you put in the stocking of the Baby Jesus? screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David's Niven.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia.]
Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genii.
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time.
In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
