Quotes with mother-wit

Quotes 401 till 420 of 493.

  • Douglas Jerrold 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.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu 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.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Josh Billings There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Mother Teresa 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.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Mother Teresa 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.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Mother Teresa 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.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mother Teresa 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.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Olive Schreiner There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Dorothy Parker There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Albert Claude 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.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • John Milton 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.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Florence King 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.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 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?
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • André Maurois To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • William Congreve 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.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Mother Teresa To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Barry Humphries To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Alice Walker 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.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Camille Paglia Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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