“Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.”
Walter Savage Landor
“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.”
William Shakespeare
“All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it”
Mark Twain
“The idea is to let the children fully experience their lives and sharpen their wits through walking and traveling.”
Xu Xiangyang
“It has been said that misfortune sharpens our wits, but . . . it often simply dulls them.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”
Charlotte Bronte
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
Dorothy Parker
