#wit

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#constantly #died #excuses #father #great

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#able #also #arms #dream #every

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#anyone #camels #distrust #drink #else

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#being #enough #hard #local #play

Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#benefits #financially #full #generation #legally

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#erudition #foliage #fruit #produce #without

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#attain #barbarism #greeks #hardly #human

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#creation #determinism #evidence #free #free will

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#make #nowadays #phrase #three #turns

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it. ↗

— Trygve Lie

#diplomat #having #his #neighbor #notice