A man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty.
-- Emerson
-- Emerson
Related:
- Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty,
and they will receive you into their bosom. --... - Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.
The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win... - Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.
The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win... - Trischmann's Paradox:
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something... - Axiom of the Pipe (Trischmann's Paradox)
A pipe
gives a wise man time to think and a fool something... - A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick
in his mouth.
Trischmann's... - Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
Timon of Athens -- Act iii, Sc.... - There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument
of infidelity,
namely, that no man ever repented of being a christian... - A dead comic is at his wit's
end.....
