“The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“I was going to write a sharp witty email full of devastating one-liners but I suspect you want something nicer than that” — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“My name is Mr Bread." He began writing his name neatly on the board. "But you can call me Peter." Suddenly there… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' — P. J. O'Rourke 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
The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair… — Robert Henryson Copy Share Image
Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“How do you feel about going on a date with me? I'm abroad for another two weeks; you've got plenty of time… — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. — Wallace B. Smith Copy Share Image
My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
