Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Exhausting thought, And having wisdom with each studious year.
I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. What is your study?
So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would, It doth forget to do the thing it should; And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost.
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.
One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which the want of knowledge always inflicts.
The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid. [Lat., La faute en est aux dieux, qui la firent si bete.]
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Peter was dull; he was at first Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed-- Still with his dulness was he cursed-- Dull--beyond all conception--dull.
The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration.
When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration."
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit: His high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit.
We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers; Body and brain we were sound as they, But the prizes were not ours.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Born for success, he seemed With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes.
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. â¢George S. Patton Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. â¢Benjamin Disraeli Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. â¢William Feather All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. â¢Mark Twain The reward of a thing well done is having done it. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. â¢Joseph Ross Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. â¢Dave Gardner If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. â¢Anonymous The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. â¢Elbert Hubbard Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. â¢James W. Pence The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. â¢Vince Lombardi or â¢Donald Kendall The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. â¢Nelson Boswell The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. â¢Jean Giraudoux I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. â¢Bill Cosby Why be a man when you can be a success? â¢Bertold Brecht For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. â¢Richard Feynman Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Nothing fails like success. â¢Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? â¢Jean Cocteau Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. â¢Lily Tomlin The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. â¢Nancy Astor For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. â¢Rita Mae Brown Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. â¢Mark Twain The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. â¢J.N. Fadenburg Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. â¢Cecil B. Demille I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. â¢Abraham Lincoln The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. â¢Groucho Marx Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
