Quotes
Quotes about World
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
