Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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• Laughter
• Wit

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• I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Time
  • Done
  • Thought

• I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thought
  • Doing
  • Blues

• It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Fall
  • Doing
  • Bird

• I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Important
  • Why
  • Better

• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Pretty
  • Much
  • Thrift

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • True
  • Girl

• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Flowers

• I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Best Friend

• We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Desire
  • Creative
  • Active

• I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Cute
  • Only
  • Revolutionary

• There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Young
  • Losing
  • Sibling

• I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

  

  Garrett Morris
  • Peace
  • Idea
  • Happen

• I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Things

• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Home
  • Protection

• Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • She
  • Cool
  • Unique

• Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Life
  • Great
  • Food

• I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white, besides me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity. I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea lies before you.

  

  Kazimir Malevich
  • Free
  • Color
  • Lies

• One thing that makes me optimistic is other media from the digital world coming at radio. MTV tried to kill the radio star back in the '80s. And with all the digital services coming at us, people say it's a thing of the past - it's not.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • People
  • World
  • Past

• At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • World
  • Country
  • Doubt

• This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • World
  • Laughter