Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
Where would we be without salt?
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. - The Oracle.
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.
They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. - The Italians, 1964.
It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards".
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?.
Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football. [When asked if making movies is fun].
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.
Since you go where all have gone before, why do you torment your your disgraceful life with such mean ambitions, O miser? [Lat., Abiturus illuc priores abierunt, Quid mente caeca torques spiritum? Tibi dico, avare.]
He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor Away unalmed; and midst abundance died-- Sorest of evils!--died of utter want.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; Deserted at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth expos'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes.
Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young and so fair!
Such a house broke? So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not One friend to take his fortune by the arm And go along with him?
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller.
Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe? Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule Pursue thy fellows still with jest and jibe: Wit, sophist, songster, Yorick of thy tribe; Thou sportive satirist of Nature's school; To thee the palm of scoffing we ascribe, Arch-mocker and mad abbot of misrule!
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
