#wit

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#designer #douglas #flourish #mcdonald #without

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#die #having #idea #lived #unbearable

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ↗

— Robert Frost

#ability #almost #anything #listen #losing

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. ↗

— Robert Frost

#bare #beautiful #dark #days #here

Human improvement is from within outward. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#improvement #outward #within

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#kicking #old-fashioned #rump #witnessed #you

So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#areas #cultural #go #going #historic

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#been #children #clothes #emperor #half-wits

I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for. ↗

— Levon Helm

#crowd #distance #get #happens #here

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#tenderness #uninteresting #without