#wit

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#awaken #awakens #inside #must #seldom

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#cannot #darkness #falsehood #knowing #light

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. ↗

— George Herbert

#conversation #knowledge #more #than #wit

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. ↗

— George Herbert

#hath #learning #man #memory #rock

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#doing #even #fame #hope #love

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual! ↗

— George Herman

#adult #concept #emotion #first #handling

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. ↗

— Herodotus

#always #become #being #bit #fun

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#activity #alive #be happy #energy #feat

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. ↗

— John Hersey

#fiction #gives #history #journalism #live

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#faith #huge #i #life #my life