There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit…

I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female humorist, and…

— Dorothy Parker

“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

The well of true wit is truth itself.

— George Meredith

Since when do we let the government decide what is or isn't good for us? What the hell does Congress know about nutrition, anyway?...…

— Michael Badnarik

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

— Terence McKenna

The first time you went to the gym, to be trained and worked out, there'd be about four or five wrestlers, they'd take you…

— George Steele

My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based upon the…

— Jim Brown

I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own…

— Vidya Balan

The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size…

— Terence McKenna

I used to lift weights, but not now. I do calisthenics and yoga, which is very good for flexibility and stretching ligaments and tendons.

— Bob Backlund

When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.

— Willard Scott

Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as…

— Fran Lebowitz

Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came…

— Fran Lebowitz

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

— Winston Churchill

All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all…

— H. L. Mencken