Witty Quotes - Page 46

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withheld for a moment. When Mr. Lyell finds, as a witty friend lately reported that there had been found, a silver-spoon in grauwacke, or a locomotive engine in mica-schist, then, but not sooner, shall we enrol ourselves disciples of the Cyclical Theory of Geological formations.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.

I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world.

When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows.

No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.

Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

The heart wants what it wants.

Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.