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Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.
Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.
Kurt Vonnegut
You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.
Jodi Picoult
I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
Henry David Thoreau
He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'.
It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood with salts in her hand expecting to be agitated---her aunt tried to cry--- and the service was impressively read by Dr. Grant.
Jane Austen
You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite.
Hello, I am Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.
Paulo Coelho
-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.
Terry Pratchett
Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.
Christopher Hitchens
Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.
J.K. Rowling
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare
You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?
So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.''Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.
Cassandra Clare
(About a cookbook...)- What about this one? Maids of Honor?- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
Ernest Hemingway
