#wit

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task. ↗

— William Congreve

#fellow #find #fool #hard #his

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God. ↗

— Sean Connery

#faith #fear #god #kills #laughter

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#definition #intellectual #listen #lone #lone ranger

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#here #i #i am #impossible #knowing

Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it. ↗

— Tim Cook

#change #culture #excellence #going #i

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes. ↗

— Boris Vallejo

#bored #clothes #costumes #doing #enjoy

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#description #fact #general #had #identified

We provided complete protection to witnesses - right of attorney, right of record, right to cross-examine, and open hearing if they desired. Only Mr. Lane asked for an open hearing. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#attorney #complete #desired #hearing #lane

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#must #stifle #themselves #try #ugly

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#earth #important #important ways #many #mobility