Quotes
Quotes about Wit
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.
Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible. Martha Washington -Unknown.
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Fancy with prophetic glance Sees the teeming months advance; The field, the forest, green and gay; The dappled slope, the tedded hay; Sees the reddening orchard blow, The Harvest wave, the vintage flow.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
We love without reason, and without reason we hate.
You cannot hate other people without hating your self.
These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage.
Then let him know that hatred without end Or intermission is between us two.
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green, Let Peggy wear.
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.
The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.
She rears her young on yonder tree; She leaves her faithful mate to mind 'em; Like us, for fish she sails to sea, And, plunging, shows us where to find 'em. Yo, ho, my hearts! let's seek the deep, Ply every oar, and cheerly with her, While slow the bending net we sweep, God bless the fish-hawk and the fisher.
When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring.
Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.
Health consists with Temperance alone.
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit. Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.
