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Quotes about Wit


You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.

Harvey Diamond

Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs.

Crashaw

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains --- except kill it.

Erich Fromm

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.

Abraham Maslow

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs.

Crashaw

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

General George S. Patton, Jr.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.

Japanese proverb

program (pro'-gram) [vi] To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall but with fewer opportunities for reward.

Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs.

Crashaw

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Frost

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

Henry G. Strauss

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; heads you win-tails yo lose.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kin Hubbard

The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they life about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell [Black Beauty]

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano de Crescenzo

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Samuel Butler

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