#wit

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#clever man #commit #crime #ever #half-wits

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#imagination #more #nothing #taste #than

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#exists #future #imagination #key #none

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again. ↗

— Bernhard Goetz

#any #criminal #hesitation #i #shoot

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice. ↗

— Henry Taylor

#essence #generosity #gives #readily #sacrifice

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years. ↗

— Major Taylor

#been #careers #clean #clean living #exertion

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#comparable #future #himself #immediate #immediate future

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do. ↗

— Benmont Tench

#absolutely nothing #band #denny #exactly #great

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#half #like #nature #reveal #soul

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#fruit #hand #love #love is #reach