Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
If they can make those 'black box' flight recorders indestructible, why can't they do the same with the rest of the plane?
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Absurdity, n. a statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
