#wit

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#quote #serviceable #substitute #wit

Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation. ↗

— Valentina Matviyenko

#cooperation #country #depend #europe #everyone

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#city #covered #extent #fortieth #hundred

I don't give a rat's ass what Garrett's favorite color is. And for the record, I have a vagina, so I'm well aware of the fact I can look hot without looking slutty. ↗

— T.E. Sivec

#shopping-with-a-guy #beauty

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ↗

— Chief Seattle

#bound #connect #humankind #life #ourselves

Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

#cosmetic #dangers #fully #generation #i

Our thoughts create our world. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#stephen-richards-self-help #thinking-for-change #thinking-positive #thinking-with-a-great-mind #thoughts

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#any #computer #does #judgment #literacy

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ↗

— John McPhee

#go #inventing #letters #liked #without

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper. ↗

— Graydon Carter

#politics #wit #humor