Wisdom Quotes — page 480

Everything was asleep as if the universe was a mistake.

108. A Fool’s Tongue is long enough to cut his own Throat.

O who will show me those delights on high? Echo: I.

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

All in this mottie, misty clime, I backward mus'd on wasted time, How I had spent my youthfu' prime An' done nae-thing, But stringing blethers up to rhyme For fools to sing.

The first who endeavored to draw a clear line of demarcation between these distinct departments, was Hutton, who declared that geology was in no ways concerned with 'questions as to the origin of things.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.

98. A Fool and his Money are soon parted.

Do not beguile my heart, Because thou art My power and wisdom. Put me not to shame, Because I am Thy clay that weeps, thy dust that calls.

Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie, O what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' murd'ring pattle!

Many distinguishing features of the surface may often be ascribed to the operation at a remote era of slow and tranquil causes-to the gradual deposition of sediment in a lake or in the ocean, or to the prolific increase of testacea and …

A short horse is soone currid.

I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.

62. A Crowd is not Company.

Most things move th' under-jaw; the Crocodile not. Most things sleep lying; th' Elephant leans or stands.

Absent, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.

Gin a body meet a body Comin thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body, Need a body cry?

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.

I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more, not to think more, but allow the fever of saying to make me sleepy, and fondle, with closed eyes, …

2858. By Trifles and unheeded common Things of Life, thou may'st discover Mens Qualities, Tempers, and Inclinations, better than by their greater Actions : Because in Matters of Importance they strain themselves, but in lesser Things they …

Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.