It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give. — Tristan Bernard Copy Share Image
Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored. — Joseph Chenier Copy Share Image
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the… — Elton Gallegly Copy Share Image
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in… — Phill Jupitus Copy Share Image
And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he's so joyous and… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair… — Robert Henryson Copy Share Image
I have to match wits with the ads. Like, there's pop-ups that, like, move around and you have to chase them like… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially speaking.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
