He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch "in stitches.” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin wit no makeup on. That's when you're the prettiest, I hope that you don't take it wrong. — Drake Copy Share Image
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
I really like sardonicism and wit. I love the writing of Joy Williams and Lorrie Moore. I like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Erm…I don’t know maybe for kissing me and tasting so damn delicious, maybe for holding my hand in public, maybe for looking… — Becca Lee Copy Share Image
Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake.… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us.… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
