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There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer. - [Argument] Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader. - [Treason] Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it. - [Virtue] We are all slaves to the shining metal. - [Money] We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. Chains are worse than bayonets. - [Peace] What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform! - [War] What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be! - [Weeping] Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor. - [Wishes] Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances. - [Wit] Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks. - [Timidity] That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment. - A Comic Author [Speech] Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. - A Land of Plenty [Agriculture] Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. - A Matter-of-Fact Man [Talk] After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. - A Wedding-Gown--Jerrold's Wit [Apparel] He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold's Wit [Philanthropy : Voting] The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling. - Douglas Jerrold's Wit--The Way to a Woman's Heart [Wooing] He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad. - Jerrold's Wit--A Charitable Man [Goodness] Love's like the flies, and, drawing-room or garret, goes all over a house. - Jerrold's Wit--Love [Love] Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. - Jerrold's Wit--Meeting Trouble Half-Way [Luck] We have peace as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. Chains are worse than bayonets. - Jerrold's Wit--Peace [Peace] As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice. - Jerrold's Wit--Shakespeare Grog [Liquor] Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach. - Jerrold's Wit--The Anglo-French Alliance [Ocean] In all the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of the plums. - Jerrold's Wit--The Catspaw [Hope] The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven. - Jerrold's Wit--The Husbandman's Life [Agriculture] The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. - Jerrold's Wit--Ugly Trades [Occupations] Displaying page 3 of 4 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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