#wit

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem. ↗

— Jane Porter

#gem #nobility #setting #virtue #without

Dance must have a precision without fault. ↗

— Arielle Dombasle

#fault #must #precision #without

Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done. ↗

— John Prescott

#done #down #find #housing #how

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#could #dean #dialogue #films #heart

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#could #discovering #dozen #ever #half

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. ↗

— Horace

#brass #innocent #screen #thy #wall

I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown! ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#cook #cooks #family #hometown #i

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#calculate #cannot #equation #eve #imaginary

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#courage #disinterested #government #intelligence #know

Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated. ↗

— Francois Quesnay

#land #property #security #sense #still