Quotes
Quotes about Wit
It may be that love turned to hate is terribly common in sexual matters: it may be that hate turned to love is not uncommon in the rivalries of race or class. But any philosophy about the sexes that begins with anything but the mutual attraction of the sexes, begins with a fallacy; and all its historical comparisons are as irrelevant and impertinent as puns.
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
Where your entire love is, namely, with your child, there is also your entire virtue!
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Circle: A line that meets its other end without ending.
Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat.
Nothing increases your golf score like witnesses.
Heating with wood, you get warm twice: Once chopping it, and once
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.
"I'd love to go out with you, but I'm converting my calendar watch from Julian to Gregorian."
Egotism: Doing a crossword puzzle with a pen.
He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work,
He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
Youth has a body in search of a wisdom, and with age the wisdom gained is in search of a body.
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Children aren't happy without something to ignore. And that's what parents were created for.
Patience is counting down without blasting off.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Patience is counting down without blasting off.
