Quotes 461 till 480 of 493.
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Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
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Wit is the epitaph on the death of an emotion.
Original:Der Witz ist das Epigramm auf den Tod eines Gefühls.
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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
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With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
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Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
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Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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