Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. Tell her: "Kath, you just go right ahead and do what you feel is right." Unless you actually care for her, in which case you must see to it that she has no male contact whatsoever.
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley.
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they areâchaff and grain togetherâcertain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest awayâ¦.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.
Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.
The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
