You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was,… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh? — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the… — Alice McDermott 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
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
