#wit

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#bothering #could #done #get #i

Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#gilt #many #neither #nor #properly

So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#human #narrow #vast #wit

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life. ↗

— John Pomfret

#american life #bosnian #chinese #experience #korean

If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant? ↗

— Pete du Pont

#attacks #coming #could #electronically #government

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#folly #genius #good #good sense #only

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#dominion #else #fate #final #god

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#certain #far #majesty #simplicity #which

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. ↗