Quotes
Quotes about Wit
I'll take a "5" with a "10" attitude over a "10" with a "5" attitude any day.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Volcano: A mountain with hiccups.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
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 gainsâexcept kill it.
Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?
