Quotes on Witty

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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 rather not.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.