Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
The eye is not satisfied with seeing.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand.
Terrible as an army with banners.
Walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.
We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement.
Written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond.
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.
So they [Azarias and Tobias] went forth both, and the young man's dog went with them.
Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered.
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house.
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
He that is not with me is against me.
Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us?
The poor always ye have with you.
