Quotes
Quotes about Wit
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we."
Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And ever since it grew more clean and white.
Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet, A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete; But if as on occasion the heart and mind are sour, It has no great significance, it loses half its power.
When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove-- The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.
You may conquer with a sword but you are conquered by a kiss.
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . . with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember that a kite rises against - not with - the wind.
He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
