"Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity."

-- Joseph Addison

#Wit Quotes #Incongruity Quotes

“I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.”
“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”
“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.”
“Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States.”

Source : "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. August 4, 2002.
“You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.”
“Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Mar 06, 2011
“I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.”
“Management is not a science, it is an art.”

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