Quotes
Quotes about Wit
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state.
Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin; For to deny each article with oath Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.
Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!
But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws from and repels its brother. [Ger., Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, Die eine will sich von der andern trennen.]
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt. [Lat., Hic murus aeneus esto, Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa.]
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.
