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Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality


Aphra Behn

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VIRGINIA WOOLF The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
GEERHARDUS VOS Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
APHRA BEHN Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of je...
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Variety is the soul of pleasure.
APHRA BEHN There is no sinner like a young saint.
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir
APHRA BEHN No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
APHRA BEHN Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my...
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet
APHRA BEHN Come away; poverty's catching
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and...
APHRA BEHN Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
BARRY MANILOW Especially against a defence like that, it feels great,
RONNIE BROWN Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
MARQUIS DE ACERBA The average man is proof enough that a woman can take a joke.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Th...
SIMON WIESENTHAL Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the f...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
CHARLES I Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
PLUTARCH To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination
CARDINALDE BERNIS One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
SUN TZU All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe.
JOHN WEBSTER Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence,
And fills up all the mighty void of sense!
ALEXANDER POPE My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.
GEORG CANTOR I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.
BOB AINSWORTH Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.
AARON LAURITSEN Don't set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFT Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and w...
LOU BROCK Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and ...
LOU BROCK Truth Does Not Need Proof, Only Lies Do.
THEHEALTHFOODGURU The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
STEPHEN JAY GOULD Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of charact...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.
KATHRYN L. NELSON There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ...and when is enough proof enough?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER My eyes in tears
Heart never sighs
My mind never fears
I conquer the lies
MUNIA KHAN You're the only friend I need
Sharing beds like little kids
And laughing 'til our ribs g...
LORDE Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
Is...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that ma...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is beauty within all my imperfections, Within myself there lies a strength that can never be t...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON And who shall separate the dust
What later we shall be:
Whose keen discerning eye will scan GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON I now believe truth lies not in logic but in hope, both past and future. I believe hope can surprise...
AMY TAN Some make you sing and some make you scream,
One makes you wish that you'd never been seen.
DAVID BOWIE The normal sanction - if you can prove that someone has tested positive - is a two-year ban, but wha...
HEIN VERBRUGGEN Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lie...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Not that any of the sysadmin’s knowledge and skills were applicable here.

The psycholog...
NEAL STEPHENSON Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
and the hunter home fro...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;
And to do that well craves a kind of wit:
He ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the reveali...
STUDS TERKEL Mortality, behold and fear! / What a change of flesh is here!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said.

China glanced at her. "They'...
DEREK LANDY However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whate...
MANNA FRANCIS I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Take the head off the chicken, and it runs around. The defence has been doing that way before I got ...
CHRIS HOVAN forever can never be long enough for me to feel that i've had long enough with you
TRAIN We know we are a nasty defence. We know we are a good defence, but last year we didn't have enough t...
JEREMIAH TROTTER . . . the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyran...
THOMAS PAINE Watson: "You may be right."

Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day n...
ROBBIE FOWLER The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.
MILOS ZEMAN Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
BARRY MANILOW What do you know?”
“Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth som...
BRANDON SANDERSON An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer ...
V. S. NAIPAUL An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the write...
V. S. NAIPAUL Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, ...
LAJOS KOSSUTH Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

[misquote of a letter about win...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You must be
true to yourself.
Strong enough to be
true to yourself.
Brave enough to be SYLVIA ASHTON-WARNER Well, did he do it?"

She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms ...
MICHAEL CONNELLY What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A little mortality can set off recovery.
LOUISA WILLCOX Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
NOEL COWARD Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.
SIR NOEL COWARD Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
NOEL COWARD Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade
NOEL COWARD O, let me kiss that hand!

KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You can never be prepared enough for marriage
JENNY ROSALES-FERAER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.
JASON MYERS I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
OREL HERHISER But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.
CECELIA AHERN AHERN The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
ELBERT HUBBARD The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment
ELBERT HUBBARD It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.
CHRYSTIA FREELAND

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APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
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APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
APHRA BEHN Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of je...
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APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Variety is the soul of pleasure.
APHRA BEHN There is no sinner like a young saint.
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir
APHRA BEHN No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
APHRA BEHN Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my...
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet
APHRA BEHN Come away; poverty's catching
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and...
APHRA BEHN Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.
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