Wit Quotes - Page 9
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.13, Courier Corporation
Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.131, Penguin
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
"To His Coy Mistress" l. 21 (1681)
In Joseph Weintraub Peel Me a Grape (1975) p. 47
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.233
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
The New York Times Magazine, October 04, 1953.
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
TheWind in theWillows ch. 1 (1908)
"At the Ziegfeld Follies".
1942 The Secret Life of Salvador Dal|¤, prologue.