Life Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee Download Open image “We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.” — Christian Nestell Bovee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Office Tendencies Wit
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of… — George Will Copy Share Image
That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and… — King James I Copy Share Image
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
