Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends. — John Selden Copy Share Image
I love Tom Cruise. When Penelope Cruz is through with him, I'm next. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
“An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging. — James Agate Copy Share Image
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon. — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away? — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offers its readers the most cutting-edge information, available… — Jared Kushner Copy Share Image
Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time.… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely Copy Share Image
In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
It shall be my pleasure to remedy it. First, it is not your strength or your speed that draws me. It's your...everything.… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me . — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
