Quotes
Quotes about Wit
There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love; Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.
Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.
So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition-- Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.
Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe.
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.
Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT.
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.... Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
The new constitution established a president with powers unheard of in the republican United States. Some even wanted him to be king, a thought that GW found ludicrous: What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal & fallacious!
True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themesâthe values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
