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Wits Quotes (page 23)

Aphra Behn quote: "Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be. Defence enough..."
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be. Defence enough against Mortality Aphra Behn
Thomas Hobbes quote: "It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their..."
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit. Thomas Hobbes
The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently. Harvey Fierstein
Neal A. Maxwell quote: "We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which..."
We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen. Neal A. Maxwell
They drew a line that shut me out, Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout! But love and I had the wit to win. We drew a circle and brought them in. Edwin Markham
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of... Jane Austen
Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down. Anne Rice
The great Creator to revere. Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range. Be complaisance extended; An atheist laugh's a poor exchange. For deity offended. Robert Burns
Fanny Burney quote: "Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement,..."
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. Fanny Burney
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long."
A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. Hunter S. Thompson
Julian Barnes quote: "What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you..."
What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed. Julian Barnes
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. Elie Wiesel
I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole. Marilyn Monroe
To love mankind for the sake of God-that has been the most nobel and far-fetched feeling yet achieved by human beings. The idea that without some sanctifying ulterior motive, a love of mankind is just one more brutish stupidity, that the predisposition to such a love must first find its weight, its refinement, its grain of salt and pinch of ambergris in another even higher predisposition-whoever first felt and 'witnessed' this, and however much his tongue may have stuttered in attempting to... Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing I have witnessed, from lava to crustacean, assailed me liked the caked debris haunting that small plastic soap hammock in the smaller of the bathrooms. Nausea is not a sufficient word. Werner Herzog

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