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Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you read more
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
With little wit and ease to suit them,
They whirl in narrow circling trails,
Like kittens playing read more
With little wit and ease to suit them,
They whirl in narrow circling trails,
Like kittens playing with their tails.
[Ger., Mit wenig Witz und viel Behagen
Dreht jeder sich im engen Zirkeltanz
Wie junge Katzen mit dem Schwanz.]
It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.
It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get
blunted.
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get
blunted.
Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit;
sometimes so long, that there is no read more
Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit;
sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.
Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
