Half is better than none unless it be of a wit.
Susan LendrothStichwörter: humor wit fool witty-quotes sarcastic-humor half-wit
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.
Virginia WoolfI'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.
Jane AustenStichwörter: humor wit jane-austen
The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.
Friedrich NietzscheMagda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.
Junot DíazThe important thing to remember is not to forget
Benny BellamacinaStichwörter: wisdom life philosophy relationships wit famous-quotes witty-quotes
And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.
Henry FieldingStichwörter: humour wit classics
It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely commemorating a battle in which he'd lost. (Though perhaps that's not so unusual: many people take a curatorial interest in their own scars.) He's shown astride his horse, waving a sword and about to gallop into the nearby petunia bed: a craggy man with seasoned eyes and pointed beard, every sculptor's idea of every cavalry leader. No one knows what Colonel Parkman really looked like, since he left no pictorial evidence of himself and the statue wasn't erected until 1885, but he looks like this now. Such is the tyranny of Art.
On the left-hand side of the lawn, also with a petunia bed, is an equally mythic figure: the Weary Soldier, his three top shirt buttons undone, his neck bowed as if for the headman's axe, his uniform rumpled, his helmet askew, leaning on his malfunctioning Ross rifle. Forever young, forever exhausted, he tops the War Memorial, his skin burning green in the sun, pigeon droppings running down his face like tears.
Stichwörter: truth war wit parody reality-check
Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you.
Ankur Basu RoyStichwörter: humor wit life-and-living witty life-philosophy
Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.
Brandon SandersonStichwörter: books learning scholarship wit brandon-sanderson the-way-of-kings
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