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

George Herbert
Some Similar Quotes
  1. He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted - Edwin Markham

  2. I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer - Douglas Adams

  3. I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. - G.k. Chesterton

  4. Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common. - Dorothy Parker

  5. The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

More Quotes By George Herbert
  1. Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?

  2. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou must die.

  3. Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire: Who blows it not, nor doth control A faint desire,

  4. I will complain, yet praise; I will bewail, approve: And all my sowre-sweet dayes I will lament, and love.

  5. Woe be to him that reads but one book.

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