I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
“Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.” — Amit Kalantri 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
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
“What is whiter than snow?' he said. 'The truth,' said Grania. 'What is the best colour?' said Finn. 'The colour of childhood,'… — Augusta Gregory Copy Share Image
How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
If there's any plan or scheme on my part, it's subconscious. Whatever I do tends to be very different from the thing… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun. — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
