Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.
Joan Lowery NixonTags: life wit problems luck excuse superstitious tragedies
Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."
"I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar WildeTags: wit
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar WildeTags: learning college humility wit teaching everybody incapable
There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing,
Jane AustenTags: humor wit jane-austen
You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core.
Kevin BrockmeierTags: humor questions wit aging joking
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
Dorothy ParkerTags: attributed-no-source religion wit
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.
Jane AustenAsk me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Oliver GoldsmithTags: humor questions lies wit sarcasm witty ask
Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.
Richard MitchellTags: words language wit reasoning
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