Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. — Wallace B. Smith Copy Share Image
“In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit. — Isabel Yosito Copy Share Image
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I would love to have a battle of wits with you, Bison, but I doubt it would be a fair fight.' 'Shut… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking,… — William Gouge Copy Share Image
[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:]… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there. What impresses me in a… — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income… Bear this truth always in your mind, that you… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I always put these pert jackanapeses out of countenance by looking extremely grave when they expect that I should laugh at their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
“After dinner, at five o’clock, the crew distributed folding canvas cots to the passengers, and each person opened his bed wherever he… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs,… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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