Quotes with mother-wit

Quotes 481 till 493 of 493.

  • Clare Boothe Luce You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Bede Griffiths You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Lord Melbourne You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Dogen You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
    Dogen
    Japanese Zen-teacher
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  • David Herbert Lawrence You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anita Bryant As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.
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  • William Shakespeare A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Jean Arp Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
    Jean Arp
    German-French sculptor, painter, poet (1886 - 1966)
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  • Agnes Smedley But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Fuller The more wit the less courage.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alexander Pope You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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