He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit. — Lou Brock Copy Share Image
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to. — George Horne Copy Share Image
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it… — Tribhuvan Suthar 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
The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious… — David Hume Copy Share Image
She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn't only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, with all his wit, humor, raillery, persiflage, he was the profoundest logician that ever appealed to the… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 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
