I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that. — Chris Cooper Copy Share Image
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are".” — Anne Hines Copy Share Image
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A handbag is only one item to be worn with a complete outfit. Add a peony pink leather handbag to a charcoal… — Kate Spade Copy Share Image
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“Well then that's our date confirmed. I am excited! Most girls want to know if I have long term plans to start… — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
For the May Day is the great day, Sung along the old straight track. And those who ancient lines did ley Will… — Jethro Tull Copy Share Image
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely commemorating a battle in which he'd… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,… — George Crabbe 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
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of… — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
“Worry wasn’t an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed—and it worried him.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers — William Baldwin Copy Share Image
They say the streets is a demon in a dress, Wit dollar signs in her eyes and semen on her breath — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
She has pretentious conversations about art house films. I have pretentious conversations about porno clips. We were doomed from the start … — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image
One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles. — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit… — John Selden Copy Share Image