“Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law. — Big L Copy Share Image
One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“I like to live every day like it's my last." Shallan nodded. "And by that I mean lying in a puddle of… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan.… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting… — Bono Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
The Drab Age is over. Color is coming into its own again. Until very recently people were literally scared out of their… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
“Jordan, there isn't a straight woman or gay man alive who wouldn't drop everything to have dinner with you. I've been in… — Matthew Haldeman-Time Copy Share Image
“Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I… — Gerard Nolst Trenité Copy Share Image
“I spent the last Friday of summer vacation spreading hot, sticky tar across the roof of George Washington High. My companions were… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
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