Famous quotes containing the words operation, frequent and/or wind:
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of Wut, is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
—Sydney Smith (17711845)
“An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.”
—José Bergamín (18951983)
“Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.”
—Lionel Trilling (19051975)
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