#wit

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#always #army #does #go #i

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#built #higher #idiot #imagining #life

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#interpreting #observe #observing #possible #without

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#into #turn #vegetables #without #would

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#depends #development #effort #growth #intellectually

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#any #constantly #felt #girl #i

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#capable #dry #humor #i #kind

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#consciousness #considering #derive #forces #general

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#any #business #consulting #control #embrace