Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
This administration has broken faith with the people of America. They have squandered the immense good will extended by other nations.
We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize, Who never wanted a good word-- From those who spoke her praise.
I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you; Wherever you stay, wherever you go, May the beautiful palms of Allah grow; Through days of labor, and nights of rest, The love of Good Allah make you blest; So I touch my heart--as the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you.
Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't.
I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Bravely! said he; for I of late have been Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.
And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.
A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.
You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. . . . It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House--with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
