Levity Quotes
Pirkei Avot, 3:17,
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.267, Simon and Schuster
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics
Ed Buckbee, Wally Schirra (2005). “The Real Space Cowboys”, Collectors Guide Pub
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.
"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.
Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.155