“If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.” — Lee Child Copy Share Image
So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last. — Ethel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there. What impresses me in a… — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income… Bear this truth always in your mind, that you… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing… — Nelly Copy Share Image
Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Wine give strenght to weary men. and And wine can of their wits the wise beguile. Make the sage frolic, and the… — Homer Copy Share Image
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I don't ever feel a full transition to my character. I don't ever feel like I have left myself, because if I… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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