Wit — Page 3

“Vision without execution is hallucination.”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“There's a remedy for everything except death.”

“The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.”

“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

“Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”

“Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”

“Beauty is a form of Genius — is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.”

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.”

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

“For to err is human, and to forgive divine.”

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

“The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.”