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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

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• Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Educated
  • Witty
  • Proverbs

• Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Drinking
  • Melancholy
  • Indeed

• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Kind
  • Quality
  • Melancholy

• For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Child

• You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • You
  • Serious
  • Witty

• Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Poets

• To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Poets
  • Audiences

• I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • People
  • Guy
  • Party

• The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned.

  

  Mary Quant
  • Sexy
  • Witty

• Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Deep
  • Moral

• A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

  

  Chauncey Depew
  • Witty

• I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

  

  James Brown
  • Funny
  • inspirational
  • Might

• I'm mad about God! That's why I'm divine.

  

  Bette Midler
  • God
  • Why
  • Mad

• We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Real
  • Lost
  • Poetry

• In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Present
  • Danger
  • Role

• Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Work
  • Done
  • Technology

• It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

  

  John Barrymore
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Trouble

• I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one.

  

  Poorna Jagannathan
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Become

• I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Girl
  • Friend
  • Best

• Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Creation
  • Musical
  • Mozart

• I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Everyday

• Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

  

  Aristotle
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  • Melancholy