Quotes 401 till 420 of 493.
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There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
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There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
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There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in -that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
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There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
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There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
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This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
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Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row.
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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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