Quotes
Quotes about Wit
When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.
He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
Quarreling is like cutting water with a sword.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.
Man will not live without answers to his questions.
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Quiet is what home would be without children.
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.
The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the south melting.
