Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap - and they know it.
Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humansâ you know the answer before I say itâ that's not good.
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
I wonder if ever a song was sung but the singer's heart sang sweeter! I wonder if ever a rhyme was rung but the thought surpassed the meter! I wonder if ever a sculptor wrought till the cold stone echoed his ardent thought! Or, if ever a painter with light and shade the dream of his inmost heart portrayed!
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And say, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said-- "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
Our revels are now ended. These our actors As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all of which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Is rounded with a sleep.
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
Her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird, Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence.
A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without emphasis, and lays stress on what is deeply felt.
I thank you for your voices, thank you! Your most sweet voices! Now you have left your voices, I have no further with you.
I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us; but I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any suckling dove; I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale.
He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song.
At some glad moment was it nature's choice To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.
The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand, The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
