#wit

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance. ↗

— John Barrow

#cost #element #everything #fortune #good

Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself. ↗

— Todd Barry

#ever #few #had #i #impression

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere. ↗

— John Barrymore

#girl #go #her #kind #mother

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#light #stick #without #you

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#little #nothing #very #without #you

I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff. ↗

— John Barton

#exhausting #find #i #magazine #office

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#away #character #done #during #i

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#feelings #formulated #idea #idealism #keeps

He had had much experience of physicians, and said '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 druther not'. ↗

— Mark Twain

#irony #wit #experience

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#art #done #effort #evil #fate