Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
A DEEP-SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
Why do blacks identify with the Christian religion of their oppressors? Source: Diane Rehm Show guest.
One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it. in the book THE JUNGLE.
If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatow will have to come back countless times as a lab rat for all the cruelty he has promoted on NPR.
30,000 baby chicks were sent through a San Diego factory farm chipper by workers too tired to continue individual strangling. That made the chipper a chicker.. while the little drum with swirling knives into which some factories drop baby chicks is called an eviscerator.. and what is the name for those tiny mouse sized guillotines Purina as owner of the magazine Lab Animal advertised for decapitation of captive expendable lab animals?
They did the little boy turkey named Art... choke and then served his dead body with artichokes.
Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.
Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
