Wit Quotes · Page 38

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

— Hubert H. Humphrey

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth,…

— John Donne

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

— Peggy Noonan

Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.

— John Webster

O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.

— Gaspara Stampa

At times, I find that TV today has taken so many steps backwards and has become so regressive as compared to the…

— Mandira Bedi

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the…

— William Congreve

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young,…

— Thomas Willis

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience,…

— Pliny the Elder

“Biologists are diligently unraveling the mystery of how such formidable creatures like dinosaurs vanished from the face of the Earth. Meanwhile, our…

— Muhammad Ijaz Ul Haq

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and…

— Jonathan Swift

The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very…

— Todd Haynes

“GoogleEarthlike soars his mind, through clouds where snowstorms brew; New York State has dropped away, and Massachusetts flew, and Newfoundland is ice-entombed…

— David Mitchell

They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l…

— Torquato Tasso

I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if…

— Mark Rylance

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he…

— Anonymous

You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is…

— Mary J. Miller

“Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed,…

— Junot Díaz

“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

— Dorothy Parker

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love…

— Emanuel Celler

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

— Khalil Gibran

“He liked such sharpness, for there was nothing in him that had any blood you might spill.”

— Madeline Miller

“Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed—because foolish women gave them the chance”

— Tessa Dare

Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.

— Charles Lamb

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

— Joseph Joubert

“My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.”

— Oscar Wilde

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being…

— Margaret of Valois

For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.

— K Callan

A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

— William Shakespeare

“preemptive strike n. A blow or punch delivered by military aircraft to a target who is suspected of being adverse to one's…

— Leslie Starr O'Hara

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

— William Shakespeare

Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of…

— Samuel Smiles

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw…

— Jean de la Bruyere

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

— Tracy Morgan

Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for…

— Walter Kirn

The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

— Virginia Woolf

I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson