All Quotes By Tag: Wit

“You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.”

“Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.”

“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”

“The only ‘unseemly’ thing is to not channel your intelligence usefully.”

“The illusion of ‘I’ is that you think you are ‘I’ while you are only ‘am’; and that ‘am’ is the first person singular of the verb ‘to be’. Since, for ‘to be’ you don’t need to say ‘I’, but for to say ‘I’ you need ‘to be’, thus you are prior to ‘I’ as ‘am’, and that ‘am’ is ‘to be’; therefore, to that note, on the ocean of ‘am’ alone, ‘I’ is only a wave.”

“Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.”

“I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.”

“Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.”

“Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”

“Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.”

“When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.”

“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you’ll do next.”

“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.”

“If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion”