Quotes for All
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and … Read more
Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does it again. He argues that it is not just an option but an obligation for people to use available biomedical technologies to enhance their own–and their children’s–physical and mental abilities. Harris … Read more
Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed. Evan Esar
After wisdom comes wit. Evan Esar
An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce. Evan Esar
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise. Euripides
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. Euripides
Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain. Eugenie de Guerin
Where there is a will there’s a law suit. Ethel Mumford
Life Insurance Motto – Robbing the widows early and orphan. Ethel Mumford