#wit

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

#cancel #finger #half #having #line

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. ↗

— Victor Kiam

#govern #men #only #rule #serving

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#cannot #catch #catches #caught #only

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#brings #creates #dilemmas #elements #ending

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#deadlines #i #just #other #preoccupied

When you know someone you can make a little more fun of them without them getting offended. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#getting #know #little #make #more

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#could #credit #credit card #father #get

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. ↗

— Florence King

#about #age #american #american dream #asleep

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ↗

— Florence King

#american life #between #choose #destroys #eroticism

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers! ↗

— Jonathan King

#acts #alive #being #careers #certain