The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“Deal with your own stupid planet, you idiot. Don’t make me come over there and slap you around again.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of… — Raymond Dart Copy Share Image
“Solitude has the potential to bring the best thoughts to you. When you are not involved in the emotional, entangled in the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain.… — Gilbert King Copy Share Image
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through… — David McCord Copy Share Image
I don't go to church all that regularly, and one reason I don't is very often when I go I am bored… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Some men, as they age, grow kinder. I am not one of those, for I have seen how the cosmere can mistreat… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I… — John Gower Copy Share Image
Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I knew the man up until our divorce - after that I didn't know the man, but it didn't stop me caring… — Cynthia Lennon Copy Share Image