Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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• So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Ugly
  • Face

• All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Black
  • Party
  • Taken

• When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

  

  Owen Wister
  • You
  • Choose
  • Just

• My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Free

• We don’t forgive being as we are.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Emotion
  • Sense
  • Jealousy

• I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Happy
  • Proud
  • Gay

• Christ means Krishna, love of Godhead, Who has His face annointed with tilak.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Mean
  • Faces
  • God Love

• I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Powerful
  • Tired
  • Built

• Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Faith
  • Law
  • Army

• You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Trying
  • Power
  • motivation

• I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Space

• The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • World
  • Internet
  • Virtue

• The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Sacrifice
  • Paid
  • Human Mind

• When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Eyes
  • Brilliant
  • Large

• Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.

  

  Karl Hess
  • People
  • Space
  • Liberty

• I keep six honest serving men.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Men
  • Honest
  • Keep

• The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Morality
  • Nations
  • Wit