Top 30 Quotes About Pith
#1. No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.
Thomas Jefferson
#2. The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.
Walter Scott
#3. Something had happened to that sorrow. It had gone rancid in him, he thought; it had boiled down to something he didn't understand. The pith of sorrow was in the upshot a little seed of death.
Sebastian Barry
#4. Warren Buffett summed up the conventional view with his usual pith: "Gold gets dug out of the ground ... we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it ... Anyone from Mars would be scratching their head."2
George Gilder
#5. The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.
Joseph Addison
#6. For though my rhyme be ragged,
Tattered and jagged,
Rudely rain-beaten,
Rusty and moth-eaten,
If ye take well therewith,
It hath in it some pith.
John Skelton
#7. Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence.
Ludwig Von Mises
#8. Na, she's righted again," said a cool young fisherman, "and they've gotten down that unchancy mast. They maun have stout hearts and skeely hands that work her; but it's for life, and that learns folk baith pith and lear. There! - but it's owre now.
Mrs. Oliphant
#9. For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.
John Florio
#10. What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'm taking the pith out of reality.
Alan Bennett
#11. Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
Benjamin Disraeli
#12. As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.
Ramakrishna
#13. And he would say, "Y'all come when you can," which was of no substantial pith or import, but then he would add, "Be particular." Except he pronounced it "p'ticklar." Be particular. That is, without a doubt, the Best Advice Ever Given in the History of the Entire World.
Jill Conner Browne
#15. I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#16. Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of.
David Wilcock
#17. It did not seem to matter whether I was present or not. After a time I became resentful, feeling that the flowers mocked me, blooming in defiance of my listless misery.
Sally Brampton
#18. It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.
Frank Warren
#19. It is strange how everything changes when you are not there.
Emmanuel Bove
#20. The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and ... that's not good.
Sean Bean
#21. knowing how the mind works isn't going to change how your mind works. Even
Alan Deutschman
#22. I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.
Jaron Lanier
#23. There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#24. It's a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone's on heat. It's a strange energy. It's full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music.
Alice Englert
#25. You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.
Anna Quindlen
#26. By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society of nations ... a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of human survival. One world government is inevitable.
Pope John Paul II
#27. By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.
Emile M. Cioran
#29. I might be many things, but I am also smart enough to learn from the past. Smart enough to know that no man who oozes so much alpha male will be happy with a woman who isn't weak. Or, he won't settle until he makes me weak, and I will never be that bitch.
Harper Sloan
#30. Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.
Oprah Winfrey
