Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books. — Carolyn Hart Copy Share Image
“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I'm eating a massive pastrami sandwich. It's so beautiful I might cry. Just so you know.” — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
“Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe in love," she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average,… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Have you seen them?" he asked. Arrow looked at him disinterestedly. Will frowned. Not talking, eh?" he said. "Maybe you're a little… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Theologians and other clerks, You won't understand this book, -- However bright your wits -- If you do not meet it humbly,… — Marguerite Porete Copy Share Image
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly… — H. L. Mencken 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
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
One of the problems I see with these comics on television, particularly cable television, is, since you can say anything in terms… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
“I am back in London in a couple of days and looking forward to Sunday. Here is what we are doing. 1.… — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
“ He bantered us, challenged us, electrified us . . . At times his eloquence held us silent as images and some… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would...but I just can't." "I don't understand. Why not?" "I'm not allowed… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give. — Tristan Bernard Copy Share Image
It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
