Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
We look before and after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
To "leave a sting within a brother's heart.".
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil: my cup runneth over.
No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. [Fr., Nul n'est content de sa fortune; Ni mecontent de son esprit.]
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough. [Lat., Multa petentibus Desunt multa. Bene est, cui Deus obtulit Parca, quod satis est manu.]
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]
Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene; No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.
He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.
Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals, Lurks a cruel bee that stings.
In Vietnam the CIA dressed as Viet Cong and in their uniform performed atrocities on Catholics and Buddhists. * (the same thing is being done to the Shiites and Sunnis by mosque bombers.. with the US military or Sharon operatives tagged as Sunnis for Shiites and Shiites for Sunnis).
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called; Which some professing have erred concerning faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity. - Sir Humphrey Davy,
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The science of fools with long memories.
One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
