Quotes
Quotes about Wit
But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives; And partly, seeing you are beautified With goodly shape, and by your own report A linguist, and a man of such perfection As we do in our quality much want--
Perch'd on the cedar's topmost bough, And gay with gilded wings, Perchance the patron of his vow, Some artless linnet sings.
Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-nighthacking (and/or conversations with God).
One of the things that hamper Linux's climb to world domination is the shortage of bad Computer Role Playing Games, or CRaPGs. No operating system can be considered respectable without one.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
He holds him with his glittering eye-- . . . . And listens like a three years' child.
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.
A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. Isham.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.
To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.
The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz.
When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. -Unknown.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye.
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.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. - Epistle to a Young Friend, An.
