The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Keynes was scarcely a 'revolutionary' in any real sense. He possessed the tactical wit to dress up ancient statist and inflationist fallacies… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy—they've so cluttered up their lives—they're at their wits' end. And… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life,… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There is something reassuring about British-made products and their inventiveness and ingenuity, their creative spirit and eccentricity and their British wit and… — David Linley Copy Share Image
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between… — Florence King Copy Share Image
From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to… — George Sand Copy Share Image
He had had much experience of physicians, and said, the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of… — Mary Jane Ward Copy Share Image
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I've never, ever in my life touched a photographer. Some of the cruellest things I've ever said have been to photographers who… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
My visions and fantasies are pretty standard. The only difference is I got to do it, while most of us haven't. Beyond… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again.… — Don King Copy Share Image
