Quotes
Quotes about Wit
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of itâthis is a hard lesson.
The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aimâimprove yourself.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. â¢Kingman Brewster, Jr. I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. â¢Abraham Lincoln Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. â¢Gilda Radner Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.
I strike the stars with by sublime head. [Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice A banner with the strange device, Excelsior!
He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
America! half brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.
