Wit Quotes - Page 28

• You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

  Alexander Pope

  Home, Body, Fancy

  "Epigram: You beat your pate" l. 1 (1732)

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• VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Understanding, Suffering, Dunces

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.462, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

  Tony Visconti

  Friends, Dad, Quick Wit

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• She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Party, Oysters, Letters

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• I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Success, Frustration, Firsts

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• Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Miscellaneous

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.131, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Talking, Favors, Expenses

  "Pensées Diverses" by Baron de Montesquieu, 1879.

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• He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

  Henri Arnold Seyrig

  Half

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• In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.

  Richard Bode

  Learning, Forever, Goes On

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• In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Grace, Earth

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• The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Rights, White

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• I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which they live. All I know is that they are there and we are trying to do something about it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, People, Judging

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• There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Differences, Despair

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• When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Believe, Justice For All

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• What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Expression, People

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• Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Mean, Limits

  "On the State of Our Politics - Commencement Message" by Eric Schwartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2016.

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• Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Children, Kids

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• I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Believe, Differences

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• There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Differences, Defeat

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• My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Benefits

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• You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Country, Teacher

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• The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is the message of human ideals; it is the message of human dignity; it is the message of the freedom of ideas, speech, press, the right to assemble, to worship, and the message of freedom of movement of people.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Ideas

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• There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Unemployment, Levels

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• In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Heart, People

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• The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, World, Gaps

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