Wit Quotes - Page 4
Pope John Paul II, Greg Burke (1999). “An Invitation to Joy”, p.176, Simon and Schuster
Walter Brueggemann (2010). “Journey to the Common Good”, p.26, Westminster John Knox Press
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.500, Discovery House
Attributed to Dorothy Parker after her death in Robert E. Drennan "The Algonquin Wits" (p. 124), 1968.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
"Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 362, 1977.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
In Saturday Review 25 Aug. 1962
Remarks to Rump Parliament, 20 Apr. 1653. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations describes this as "oral tradition." BulstrodeWhitlocke, Memorials of the English Affairs (1682), describes Cromwell as telling the House that "they has sate long enough, unles they had done more good."
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Mauprat ch. 11 (1837)