Ruling On Criticism

Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle

Impropriety is the soul of wit. - W Somerset Maugham

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When the age is in, the wit is out. - William Shakespeare

When the wine is in, the wit is out. - English Proverb

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay. - Prince

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. - Robert Frost

You have a ready wit. Let me know when it's ready. - Henny Youngman

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. - Dwight D Eisenhower

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. - Benjamin Disraeli

All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. - Angela Davis

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education. - William Hazlitt

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. - Aesop

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see. - Leonard Nimoy

Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave. - Walt Disney

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. - G K Chesterton

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true. - Buddha

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. - George Herbert

North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom. - Michael Adams

Common sense is just as good a critic of the lottery as any statistical breakdown. - Hunter Baker

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. - Kemal Ataturk

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. - Noel Coward

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. - Gloria Steinem

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. - Zell Miller

Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while. - Finley P Dunne

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded. - Tyne Daly

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. - Virginia Woolf

Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without. - Ymber Delecto

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy