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.
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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.
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He does an entire meal, (including) dessert side dishes.
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
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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.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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.
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Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.
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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.
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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.
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Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.
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Politics make me sick
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Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.
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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
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If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
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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.
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How every fool can play upon the word!
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A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
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The examined life is the only life worth living.
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I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good.
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I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.
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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.
