That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
England gave me a chance. It's a very individual country where people have a personal style; they don't all follow a trend.… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average,… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
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
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. We shout into the mist for this one… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very… — Jody Lynn Nye Copy Share Image
Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences;… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
