Whim Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Wit: a whim followed by a wham.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Whim Wit
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
My father would never have come to visit, he detested Eva's [Braun] choice in a man and the fact [Adolf] Hitler had set her… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial… — Madeleine Vionnet Copy Share Image
The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and… — Robert Lipsyte Copy Share Image
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests… — George Will Copy Share Image
A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of the developing… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
