Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are".” — Anne Hines Copy Share Image
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“terrorism n. Violence for political purposes or the politically motivated threat of violence which, either intentionally or unintentionally, challenges the state's monopoly… — Leslie Starr O'Hara Copy Share Image
Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. We shout into the mist for this one… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none… — Charles Spalding Thomas Copy Share Image
I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
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