Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours! — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Witten was my guy. I stayed in Wit's hip pocket and did everything I could to learn from him, learn how to… — Ezekiel Elliott Copy Share Image
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit. — Isabel Yosito Copy Share Image
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning… — George Savile Copy Share Image
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful… — George Will Copy Share Image
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever… — M.M. Kaye Copy Share Image
I can only do it if there's humour, wit, comedy and drama. If you can get audiences laughing and then suddenly turn… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Miss Taverner took the whip and reins in her hands, and mounted into the driving-seat, scorning assistance. "Take your orders from Miss… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image