Wit Quotes

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Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits. — Christopher Marlowe
Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit… — Ray Manzarek
That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of… — Clive Thompson
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how… — Holbrook Jackson
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures… — Samuel Johnson
How now, wit! Whither wander you? — William Shakespeare
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory… — Charles Caleb Colton
Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to… — Jacques Barzun
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence — George Santayana
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and… — Samuel Johnson
Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days. — Thomas Malory
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of… — Frances Parkinson Keyes
Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius. — Madame de Stael
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An… — Samuel Johnson
I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my… — Charlotte Bronte
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. — Charles Brenton Huggins
Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
I knew the man up until our divorce - after that I didn't know the man, but it didn't stop me caring about him and… — Cynthia Lennon
Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory. — William Kennedy

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