Children Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

“Only a silly sober fool could think it; imagine gloating over such nonsense (because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words…

— Jack Kerouac

O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts…

— Horace

“He read with young men who could find any leisure and interest for the study of a living tongue spoken all over the world,…

— Charles Dickens

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

— John Selden

“But the sheep had taught him something even more important: that there was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the…

— Paulo Coelho

“...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies…

— Jack Kerouac

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

— Ambrose Bierce

“There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom…

— A. Lee Martinez

“...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through…

— Jack Kerouac

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke—the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in…

— Paulo Coelho

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

— Thomas B. Macaulay