Life Quote by Hester Lynch Piozzi Download Open image “Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.” — Hester Lynch Piozzi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Wit
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
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
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. — Anonymous 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
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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 look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede;… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth! — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse. — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
“Living at Venice is like a Journey to the Moon somehow....And a sweet Planet it is!” — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly. — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied… — Hester Lynch Piozzi 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