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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #wit




She was busy trying to stab me to death with her umbrella and I was busy trying to dodge." He made a little face. "She was better at her stabbing than I was about dodging.


Emma Goldrick


#business

It is a considerable point in all good legislation to determine exactly the credibility of witnesses and the proofs of a crime. Every reasonable man, everyone, that is, whose ideas have a certain interconnection and whose feelings accord with those of other men, may be a witness. The true measure of his credibility is nothing other than his interest in telling or not telling the truth; for this reason it is frivolous to insist that women are too weak [to be good witnesses], childish to insist that civil death in a condemned man has the same effects as a real death, and meaningless to insist on the infamy of the infamous, when they have no interest in lying.


Cesare Beccaria


#crimes-and-punishments #justice #law #witnesses #death

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.


Dan Millman


#cells #ever #everything #imprinted #know

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.


Robert Anton Wilson


#changing #conservative #idea #liberal #only

The latter. She had a good run," Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.


Lisa Lutz


#humor #way-with-words #death

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.


Johannes Rau


#auditorium #embarrassment #helping #here #i

He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again.


Teodor Flonta


#life #love #secret-police #transylvania #vampires

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.


Hunter S. Thompson


#wit #humor

I won't stay in with married men any more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too much like curling up with the good book. You mean a good book Oh, dear, did I say the good book sighed the witch.


Norman Mailer


#affairs #bible #cheating #good-book #reading

Three stupid pieces of chocolate can't mean a lifetime away from the people I love." Tears streamed down my face, and my body trembled. "I don't want to forget what I have here." "I won't let that happen to you." "I want it. The candy," I whispered, ashamed to admit it out loud and scared to death because the ache in my stomach was a hunger I'd never felt before. "Even though I know what it is, I can't stop thinking about it.


Cherie Colyer


#witches #ya #death