Arms Quote by Eugenie de Guerin Download Open image “Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.” — Eugenie de Guerin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arms Fire Giving Noise Pain Wit
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense. — Phaedrus Copy Share Image
Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back. — Geoffrey Bocca Copy Share Image
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection. — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters. — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away? — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings. — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
A little time separates us from those who depart - a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that over, we… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same. So if somebody asks me what time it is, I… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Are we fighting?" I asked Morelli. "No. Were discussing." "Are you sure?" "Am I yelling?" Morelli asked. "Is my face purple? Are the cords… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms. — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
