“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( Letter 16 , 1657)” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is… — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Copy Share Image
I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess. — Maria Thayer Copy Share Image
Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit? — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don't ever go unnoticed baby, I'm wit you,… — Drake Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“Am I afraid of ghosts? My life experience has taught me to be much more afraid of what a human is capable… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful,… — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“He liked such sharpness, for there was nothing in him that had any blood you might spill.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed—because foolish women gave them the chance” — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
At times, I find that TV today has taken so many steps backwards and has become so regressive as compared to the… — Mandira Bedi Copy Share Image
O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits. — Gaspara Stampa Copy Share Image
Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it. — John Webster Copy Share Image
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored. — Joseph Chenier Copy Share Image
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
My dreams are who I'm racin wit but you can see I'm pacin it so that I'm always chasin it. — Drake Copy Share Image
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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