Quotes
Quotes about Wit
There's a skin without and a skin within, A covering skin and a lining skin, But the skin within is the skin without Doubled and carried complete throughout.
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.
People concern themselves with being normal, rather than natural.
I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!
We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. -John Paul Richter.
There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will. -Grenville Kleiser.
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!
The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd: "Dear Monarch, forgive what I've spoken!"
Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.
There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene, With armes full strong and largely displayed, But of their leaves they were disarayde The bodie bigge, and mightely pight, Thoroughly rooted, and of wond'rous hight; Whilome had bene the king of the field, And mochell mast to the husband did yielde, And with his nuts larded many swine: But now the gray mosse marred his rine; His bared boughes were beaten with stormes, His toppe was bald, and wasted with wormes, His honour decayed, his brauches sere.
He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen. [Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non videbatur.]
He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men have talked about the world without paying attention to the world of their own minds, as if they were asleep or absent-minded.
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
