Aids Quote by Alexander Pope

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

— Alexander Pope

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

— Fran Lebowitz

“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. The”

— Fanny Burney

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

— Benjamin Franklin

The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

— Alexander Pope

There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of…

— Alexander Pope

Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.

— Alexander Pope

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with…

— Alexander Pope

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

— Alexander Pope

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the…

— Alexander Pope

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and…

— Lorenzo Scupoli