Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,--
Take, I give it willingly;
For, invisible to thee,
Spirits twain have crossed with me.
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
As all the perfumes of the vanished day
Rise from the earth still moistened with the dew
So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray
Old love is born anew.
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.
Without doubt
I can teach crowing: for I gobble.
And sounding in advance its victory,
My song jets forth so clear, so proud, so peremptory,
That the horizon, seized with a rosy trembling,
Obeys me.
Terrible he rode alone,
With his Yemen sword for aid;
Ornament it carried none
But the notches on the blade.
Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
A land flowing with milk and honey.
Wisdom shall die with you.
I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me.
He multiplieth words without knowledge.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?
His leaf also shall not wither.
At their wits' end.
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the street.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
