“Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.” ThinkingWritingWellsSoulFeelingsTogetherExpressionTasteWitGood FeelingWriting WellGood ThinkingThinking Good Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
“In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.” FeelingsWomenWitTriumphOutcomesMatchingAntagonistGreat Feelings Book:Wake Up and Live!: A Formula for Success That Really Works! Source: Wake Up and Live!: A Formula for Success That Really Works!
“Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.” PlayFeelingsLanguageEffortSpeechWitFancyHolidayLicenseConstraintsThoughts And FeelingsTriflingCarnivalsDuress Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.” FeelingsTogetherFatherTermBrotherEssenceSurprisePhilosopherWitShockUnexpectedChemistryExplosionsCork Author:Edwin Percy Whipple
“The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration.” IfsDoeUseFeelingsHandsRunningAudienceGeniusHealthyDramaThousandLaughterMereInstinctCriticsPassionateWitImpressionPityTendenciesLuxuryImpulseGoing AwayAdmirationCopiesGrainAllowance Author:Leigh Hunt
“I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.” IfsKnowsWorldFeelsMindRealSelfFactsFeelingsHumorEarthTurnsProcessLaughingFocusPlanetsProductsLaughterCapacityDestructionSpeciesWitObsessedDryElephantsOutlookComfortingFashionableLiteralWhalesEnergeticPlanet EarthSelf DestructionLightnessFrivolityEndangered Species Author:Rita Mae Brown