Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.Tobias Smollett
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Ham is undoubtedly one of the most universally beloved of meats, at least in those parts of the world where it's not prohibited.
Kate Christensen -
He does an entire meal, (including) dessert side dishes.
Lynn Swann -
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Lucille Ball -
Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.
Oscar Wilde -
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde -
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle
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I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.
Vladimir Nabokov -
We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
William Hazlitt -
Politics make me sick
William Howard Taft -
Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.
Confucius -
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
William Shakespeare -
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
William Shakespeare
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To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
William Shakespeare -
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
William Shakespeare -
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
William Shakespeare -
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
William Congreve -
Too many cooks spoil the broth...
Jane Austen -
From Blue Valentine I kept my wedding ring. I actually kept it on for a while. After the shooting had stopped, I was still wearing it – I couldn’t quite take it off – and now I keep it above the kitchen sink where I do dishes, as a little memento.
Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
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My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.
Richard Feynman -
Sometimes you have to go above the law.
Fawn Hall -
he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it
Nalini Singh -
When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.
Diogenes -
One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.
Tobias Smollett