Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.


John Dryden

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Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
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In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
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Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations!
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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
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Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
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We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not...
ISAAC NEWTON
How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.
GEORGE GILLESPIE
The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.'
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He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
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Watch out he's winding the watch of his wit, by and by it will strike.
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Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.
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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
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Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond
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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
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What's the meaning of life? Other people.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.
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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues
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Those are brave men... lets go kill them
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A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.
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It’s hard to deny that an alarming number of those who stood for peace, not war, were either kille...
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People are active still and kind of wanting to rekindle those connections.
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It was found dead Oct. 7 in Dryden, Ontario. It shows that the birds were moving north.
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In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them
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Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart. -...
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Price rises are gradually feeding down the production chain. This is starting to affect consumer pri...
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It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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I’m coming for you.
—J
P.S. Please don’t die.
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Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we kill. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
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The time groaned by as John made a fool of himself. Eventually, he grew numb to the death and sin ar...
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Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.
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I think I heard the name Muddy Waters first, then John Lee Hooker.
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Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.
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Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
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Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
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I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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The winds that never moderation knew,
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Or out of...
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Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that tho...
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I think the mood of the team is wanting to go out there and prove themselves,
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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:35
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Many live by their wits but few by their wit
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It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
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It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
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Successful crimes alone are justified.
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Reason to rule but mercy to forgive:
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
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Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
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Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
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Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.
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Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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God never made His work for man to mend.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.
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A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
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He made all countries where he came his own.
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Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
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Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
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She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.
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Love is love's reward.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
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Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
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There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the un...
JOHN DRYDEN
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted...
JOHN DRYDEN
Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw, Surpa...
JOHN DRYDEN
The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of bre...
JOHN DRYDEN
Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.
JOHN DRYDEN
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; a...
JOHN DRYDEN
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chi...
JOHN DRYDEN
She deserves / More worlds than I can lose.
JOHN DRYDEN
And all to leave, what with this toil he won, / To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased w...
JOHN DRYDEN
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN
When rattling bones together fly, / From the four corners of the sky.
JOHN DRYDEN
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below
JOHN DRYDEN
To live at ease, and not be bound to think.
JOHN DRYDEN
A mob is the scum that rises utmost when the nation boils
JOHN DRYDEN
To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.
JOHN DRYDEN
Even victors are by victory undone
JOHN DRYDEN
Sighed and looked, and sighed again.
JOHN DRYDEN
I'm a little wounded but I'm not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed awhile, Then I'll rise and f...
JOHN DRYDEN