Wit: a whim followed by a wham.

Wham, bam, thank you Ma'am.

— David Bowie

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

— Mason Cooley

City wits, country humorists.

— Mason Cooley

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust…

— Steve Martin

A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of the developing…

— Selma Fraiberg

It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests…

— George Will

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing…

— Sara Teasdale

The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and…

— Robert Lipsyte

Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial…

— Madeleine Vionnet

My father would never have come to visit, he detested Eva's [Braun] choice in a man and the fact [Adolf] Hitler had set her…

— Gretl Braun

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move…

— William Allen White

If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are…

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the…

— George W. Bush

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with…

— Evelyn Waugh

Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,…

— Marcel Proust