Source: The Way of Kings
“We have always witnessed them mocking an idea one day only to sanctify it the other one”
“Ancient histories, as one of our wits has said, are but fables that have been agreed upon.”
Toutes les histoires anciennes, comme le disait un de nos beaux esprits, ne sont que des fables convenues.
Jeannot et Colin http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Jeannot_et_Colin (1764)
Citas
“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.”
This was declared without citation to have been attributed to Avicenna in A Rationalist Encyclopaedia : A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science (1950), by Joseph McCabe, p. 43; it was also later wrongly attributed to Averroes in The Atheist World (1991) by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, p. 46. It actually originates as a statement by the atheist Al-Maʿarri, earlier translated into English in A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern (1906) by John Mackinnon Robertson, Vol. I, Ch. VIII : Freethought under Islam, p. 269, in the form: "The world holds two classes of men ; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence."
Misattributed
“Who can prove
Wit to be witty when with deeper ground
Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?”
A College Breakfast-party, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)
On the practice of poetry in “Ariana Reines Knows That Not All Surrender Is Bad” https://nylon.com/ariana-reines-sand-book-interview in Nylon Magazine (2019 Oct 15)
“It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.”
Maxims and Moral Sentences
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1039/1039-h/1039-h.htm
http://archives.radio-canada.ca/politique/provincial_territorial/clips/4212/
http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/provincial_territorial_politics/clips/776/
Mais j'ai confiance qu'un jour... y'a un rendez-vous normal avec l'Histoire que le Québec tiendra, et j'ai confiance qu'on sera là, ensemble, pour y assister.
Concession speech, 1980 Quebec referendum.
“Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distils an idea.”
On the subject of criteria he used to judge in The Most Beautiful Tweet contest, Hay Festival 2010[citation needed]
2010s
