“In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. — Wallace B. Smith Copy Share Image
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“When you have a wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room. — K Callan Copy Share Image
We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being… — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“What have you done to your hair?” Mom’s broken voice said, pinning me back to this tiny hospital room. “Holy shit!” Icka… — Phoebe Kitanidis Copy Share Image
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt.… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
I write. I have read a great deal. I enjoy books. I like the wit of languages. Even French I like. I… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the… — Vince Aletti Copy Share Image
A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares… — Horace Walpole 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
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch 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
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
“Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch "in stitches.” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
