Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh;… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I always put these pert jackanapeses out of countenance by looking extremely grave when they expect that I should laugh at their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit; There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and 'Tis late and cold, stir… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of… — Dwight Garner Copy Share Image
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with… — Christine Schutt 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
Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make… — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not… — Lord Chesterfield 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
