There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it… — 1779 The Town and Country Magazine. vol. 11 Copy Share Image
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will. — Alexander Brome Copy Share Image
Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it. — John Selden Copy Share Image
Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
