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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

• Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Shadow
  • Shine
  • Divine

• There's no books out there articulating what the alt-right is. If they're such great philosophers, and they have such good ideas, and they're on the vanguard of intellectualism, where are their books? They don't have any.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Good
  • Great
  • Ideas

• Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind. Losing all their independence as divine works, things gravitate henceforth round human thought, whence their laws are derived. What wonder, after that, is if criticism had resulted in the virtual disappearance of all metaphysics? As soon as the universe is reduced to the laws of mind, man, now become creator, has no longer any means of rising above himself. Legislator of a world to which his own mind has given birth, he is henceforth the prisoner of his own work, and he will never escape from it anymore. If my thought is the condition of being, never by thought shall I be able to transcend the limits of my being and my capacity for the infinite will never be satisfied.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Criticism
  • Laws
  • Divine

• When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Family
  • Guest

• Did you ever notice that America is shaped like one big, giant toilet bowl?

  

  Bret Hart
  • America
  • Notice
  • Giant

• 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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