An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful. — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit,… — Jensen Ackles Copy Share Image
What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Government mandates, incidentally, are likely to distort rather than solve the problem of finding a market. I would, therefore, force my organization… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father’s paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking,… — William Gouge Copy Share Image
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:]… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
“Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffocating ourselves a wee… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I like to consider myself a student of hip hop. There's a certain level of certification and wit and craftsmanship that comes… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only… — Carl Jung 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
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image