quotes about Wasps
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.
-- Alice Weaver Flaherty -
A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.
-- John TennielSource : "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (p. 146), 1898.
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As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
-- Norton Juster -
He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed.
-- Sid Waddell
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“The one who has wisdom in his head and heart does not need to shout at others.”
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“How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.”
Source : Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.154, Vintage
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“If I was still at Ipswich, I wouldn't be where I am today.”
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“Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.”
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Source : "Jack Horner knows his dinosaurs" by Peggy Mihelich, www.cnn.com. March 8, 2007.
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“Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.”