Quotes
Quotes about Wit
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road.
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of the billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things within that enormous immensity.
When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder." -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Never confuse motion with action.
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea , at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
