W Quotes
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“Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.”
“Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.”
“Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.”
“Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.”
Source: King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales
“Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...
“Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.”
“Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.”
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book
“Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.”
Source: A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of The True-born Englishman: Some Whereof Never Before Printed. Corrected and Enlarged by the Author
“Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.”
“Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.”
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke
“wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.”
“Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.”
Source: The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: To which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, Studies, and Writings
“Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.”
Source: The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul: A Poem
“Wit: a whim followed by a wham.”
“Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes and smile and name. She knew how he looked--the angel in her dream--but she didn't know how to find him. Should she roller-skate through the streets in the evenings when the streetlights flicker on? Should she stow away to Jamaica on a cruise ship and search for him in the rain forests and along the beaches? Would he come to her? Was he waiting, dreaming of her in the same way she waited and dreamed?”
“Witch," he grumbled as the woman committed an exploit that caused them both to gasp with a sort of reciprocal anguish. Then... they were moving conjointly, much as one would when riding a horse. The motion went on and on, the lovers more involved, more intense in their enterprise. The woman adjusted herself so that her breasts dangled over Michael's zealous mouth. He pressured, milked, and suckled.
Sarah watched to the end, repelled, captivated, discomfited, wanting them to cease immediately, while at the same juncture, never wanting the torrid exhibition to conclude. They reached a mutual goal, a pinnacle, both crying out with a strangled elation, and she felt ashamed and sickened to have witnessed the intense emotion that flared between them, yet she was glad she had.
Their pace slackened, the tension abated, the pair relaxed, and Michael rubbed the woman's back.
Arrogant and satisfied with himself, he murmured, "Feeling better?"
"Oh, Lord... but you utterly kill me when you do that.”
Source: Total Surrender
“Witch hunters is white women’s worry.”
“Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.”
Source: The Girl in the Tower
“Witch. The word slithers from the mouth like a serpent, drips from the tongue as thick and black as far. (..) For this was a word invented by men, a word that brings power to those who speak it, not those it describes. A word that builds gallows and pyres, turns breathing women into corpses.”
Source: Weyward
“Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire.”
Source: Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
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“Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make them think they're crazy. We don't do things like that. Our number-one law is 'Have fun in this lifetime, but don't hurt anybody.' Nice little paraphrase of "An it harm none, do as ye will" if I do say so myself.”
“Witch, do this for me, Find me a moon made of longing. Then cut it sliver thin, and having cut it, hang it high above my beloved's house, so that she may look up tonight and see it, and seeing it, sigh for me as I sigh for her, moon or no moon.”
“WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.”
Source: The Rooster's Egg
“Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.”
“Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life.”
Source: The Inner Temple of Witchcraft: Magick, Meditation and Psychic Development
“Witchcraft and salt go hand in hand. Your body practically runs on it," he said, summing it up. "And I'm out of salt."
"I'll be fine. It's just a craving."
"When you crave something, it means you need it." He breathed a laugh and his eyes momentarily turned inward. "A crucible cravings is her mechanic's mandate.”
Source: Trial by Fire
“Witchcraft controllers spend abnormal amounts of time with their victims: The girl that consumes all her friend’s spare time. The boy that smothers his girlfriend with inordinate attention. Witchcraft will go out of the way to control and waste your time. It’s not a natural thing it’s a spiritual thing. Scripture says “Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor’s house lest he be weary of thee and so hate thee” (Proverbs 25:17).”
Source: How Witchcraft Spirits Attack
“Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society.
I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Witchcraft involves being willing to understand and embrace your true self. It is about exploring your light and learning to celebrate your darkness.”
Source: Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
“Witchcraft is a dark mirror into which we scry, delving into the unfathomable waters of dream and vision, to peer beyond the veil and the world of things known and into the secret inner workings of nature herself.”
Source: Forbidden Mysteries of Faery Witchcraft
“Witchcraft is a path of personal freedom.”
Source: Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
“Witchcraft is a way of looking at the physical and spiritual as a collaborative source of manifestation.”
Source: Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
“Witchcraft is a way of looking at the physical and spiritual as a collaborative source of manifestation.
Witches are in tune with themselves and in alignment with their inner forces of nature.”
“Witchcraft is an empowering practice that any person can learn, cultivate, and personalize. It is all about stepping outside of our mundane world and choosing to take on a perspective of mysticism and reverence for nature, life, and the energetic forces of this world. But what makes witch-craft simply intoxicating is that it’s about appreciating the world around us. It’s not just about what we can see; it’s about everything in between. It is the love for spirits, messages, other-worldliness, unexplainable things, mysterious connections, and the universal system of checks and balances. That is witchcraft,”
Source: The Door to Witchcraft: A New Witch's Guide to History, Traditions, and Modern-Day Spells
“Witchcraft is an intellectual pursuit, resulting in a spiritual and physical reaction.”
Source: Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
“Witchcraft is more than just a practice, it is a way of life. A way of looking at the physical and spiritual as a collaborative source of manifestation.
We are in tune with nature, in tune with ourselves and in alignment with our all-knowing inner witch.”
Source: Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
“Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.”
Source: THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD
“Witchcraft is the magick of the Earth itself. It is the essence that can bind life together.”
Source: Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
“Witchcraft is, and was, not... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you.”
“Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.”
Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase
“Witchcraft operates best in a whirlwind that gets everyone on edge, stirred up and at each other’s throats. [...] People operating in witchcraft are masters at pitting people against one another in order to separate and isolate them.”
Source: How Witchcraft Spirits Attack
“Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.”
“Witchcraft? Seriously?
In spite of this, I spent the next hour reading everything I could find online about stregheria. Its existence was a pervasive legend through Italy, particularly in the Napoli region: the first streghe were believed to have originated in medieval times in Benevento, while the sea witches specifically had originated in the Positano region.
As a whole, the women were known for reciting strange incantations and venerating various amulets, the most important of which was a cimaruta, a sort of talisman necklace meant to protect the water. It featured tiny branches, like coral, and charms such as hearts or moons.
These women, I learned, were largely practitioners of benevolent kitchen magic: they worked with babies and herbs and gemstones. Today, many women still practiced forms of stregheria, though they were taken about as seriously as other practitioners of the esoteric, like mediums or Reiki healers.
Which was to say, not very seriously at all.
On an obscure website about the legends of the streghe del mare, I stumbled across a register of sea-spell incantations and their associated tools. I thought the list seemed rather ludicrous--- mermaid's combs and century-long spells?--- but interesting, nevertheless, and I found myself googling images of hagstones and shark egg sacks.”
Source: The Amalfi Curse
“Witchcraft stemmed from woman’s insatiable lust, he imagined. Her vagina just couldn’t get enough. Just look at its form! It was these deeply insalubrious desires that supposedly put woman in contact with the devil and led her to ruin.”
Source: Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
“Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.”
“Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -”
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them