Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
Thou blossom! bright with autumn dew, And colour's with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night.
Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.
Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered.
In sight of peace--from the Narrow Seas O'er half the world to run-- With a cheated crew, to league anew With the Goth and the shameless Hun.
All German cities are blind, Nurnberg alone sees with one eye.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare.
Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
A blond in a red dress can do without introductions --but not without a bodyguard.
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
