#wit

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. ↗

— Plato

#disturbed #important #institutions #introduction #kind

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. ↗

— Plautus

#beauty #character #comes #fortune #gift

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#frighten #heads #i #i believe #people

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#horror #impress #mind #power #reality

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#certainty #even #far #foresee #than

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#any #being #being broke #better #broke

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#bounds #completely #easy #ethical #extent

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#exercise #framework #human #human beings #intelligence

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#age #cannot #character #construct #cosmic

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#bending #directing #i #knowing #me