Wittie Quotes & Sayings

In thy discourse, if thou desire to please;
All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie:
Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;
Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie. — George Herbert

Stand fast, firm and steadfast. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played. — James Levine

Now I know that there's no such thing as the truth. That people are constantly misquoted. That news organizations are full of conspiracy (and that, in any case, ineptness is a kind of conspiracy). That emotional detachment and cynicism get you only so far. But for many years I was in love with journalism. I loved the city room. I loved the pack. I loved smoking and drinking scotch and playing dollar poker. I didn't know much about anything, and I was in a profession where you didn't have to. I loved the speed. I loved the deadlines. I loved that you wrapped the fish. You can't make this stuff up, I used to say. — Nora Ephron

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot. — Joseph Barbera

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society. — William Manchester

Remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help. — Jodi Picoult

It was as though his son cheated him by depriving him of his beloved presence, the sweet and treacherous thief had plundered his heart. If Johnny had died in any other way, cancer or leukaemia ... he could have grieved with a clear heart, cried also. But suicide seemed a deliberate act of spite which the Judge resented. — Carson McCullers

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it 'Le Milieu Divin,' but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Edwin Yorke was attractive and intelligent and employed--the holy trifecta of good men. — Tiffany Reisz

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God. — St. Catherine Of Siena

I pulled a packet of Cold Flake from my pocket. "Cliff, you're a marvel. Will you have a cigarette?" "It 'ud be like givin' a pig a strawberry," the little man replied, — James Herriot

Heaven ain't hard to find; all you gotta do is look. — Tupac Shakur