Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My dreams are who I'm racin wit but you can see I'm pacin it so that I'm always chasin it. — Drake Copy Share Image
New technologies make it possible for even the mass marketer to assume the role of a small proprietor, doing business again wit… — Don Peppers Copy Share Image
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was a fan of comedy. I always loved Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Dave… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“He had a reputation in society as a man with a lively wit, whose gaiety was pleasant and formidable – which all… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work.… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“In a theater, it happened that a fire started offstage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored. — Joseph Chenier Copy Share Image
I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those… — Drake Copy Share Image
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck. — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away? — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“if you can’t acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.” — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Farewell, woman! I intend Henceforth every night to sit With my lewd, well-natured friend, Drinking to engender wit. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people. — Anuj Copy Share Image
It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
