Quotes
Quotes about Wit
How can you sing if your mouth be filled with food? How shall your hand be raised in blessing if it is filled with gold?
Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
If you can persuade your customer to tattoo your name on their chest, they probably will not switch brands.
Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.
Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The way I see it, if you want rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, honorably, and justly; or to live prudently, honorably, and justly, without living pleasurably.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Vague and insignificant forms of speech, and abuse of language have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard and misapplied words, with little or no meaning, have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance, and hindrance of true knowledge.
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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.
