Quotes
Quotes about Wit
The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected.
The only journey is the one within.
But the fruit that can fall without shaking,
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.
When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
The angels know that too many practical men eat their bread with the sweat of the dreamer's brow.
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.
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
