Quotes
Quotes about Wit
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Where there's Marriage without Love, there will be Love without Marriage.
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. [Lat., Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi suo Deus. Ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum mala fortuna compositus.]
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.
Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure.
Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising.
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.
