Wit Quotes

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Politics make me sick — William Howard Taft
I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen.… — Colin Firth
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. — Miguel de Cervantes
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly… — Samuel Johnson
I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives. However, if the… — Adolf Hitler
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 not knowing enough… — Jonathan Safran Foer
For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent… — Blaise Cendrars
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes… — Blaise Cendrars
If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then… — Tori Amos
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit. — Thomas Hobbes
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley — Charles Darwin
So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one — Zack de la Rocha
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powersâ€¦ They would be able… — Alan Turing
I know a lot of people have a hard time talking dirty - they dont know what to say, how to start, or when to… — Olivia Munn
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of… — Emily Post
But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it — William Wycherley
I'mÂ usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for… — Kendrick Lamar
O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits. — Gaspara Stampa
That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another — Fred Trueman
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. — Peggy Noonan

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