Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends. — John Selden Copy Share Image
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action. — William Wycherley 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
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last. — Ethel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Soon as I see her walk up in the club, I'm a flirt. Winking eyes at me, when I roll up on… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said: "I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I seen her in the subway, on my way to Brooklyn. "Hello, good lookin, is this seat tooken?" On the A Train,… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“The door was flung open. Maurice Duplay filled it; energetic master, shirt- sleeves rolled up. He threw out his arms, the good… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
