Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends. — John Selden Copy Share Image
Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring. — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I would have grown up to be a gentleman adventurer if I were more of a gentleman.” — Alex Potvin Copy Share Image
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. — Avicenna Copy Share Image
In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. — William Temple Copy Share Image
The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it. — William Shakespeare 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
He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
...he had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth… — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
So much of what passes for conversation today is degraded. It's either about one-upmanship, or dreary trivia. Even the cut and thrust… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
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
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“What you did tonight was clever,” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
“I am not gamesome: I do lack some part of that quick spirit that is in Antony.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“All women may not be beautiful but every woman can look beautiful.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch "in stitches.” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
