Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
A smile is a powerful weapon - you can even break ice with it.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
program (pro'-gram) [vi] To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall but with fewer opportunities for reward.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
The physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's the psychic distance.
Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire within ourselves.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must neve attempt to gather flowers.
We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Charm is a way of getting a "yes" without having asked any clear question.
