“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 Copy Share Image
I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“[Obituary of atheist philosopher Richard Robinson] An Atheist's Values is one of the best short accounts of liberalism (a term Robinson accepted)… — Nicolas Walter Copy Share Image
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems… — Alton Brown 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
So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will;… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the… — Drake Copy Share Image
