Wit Quotes

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The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes… — Paul Krassner
My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor. — Max Brooks
Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit… — Henry David Thoreau
Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what… — Bertrand Meyer
Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits can vibrate anything… — L. Ron Hubbard
Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me. — Riccardo Tisci
But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is… — Orison Swett Marden
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting… — Mary Astell
I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end… — Oliver Goldsmith
After wisdom comes wit. — Evan Esar
Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people… — Anne Perry
A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law. — Big L
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits. — Neil Kinnock
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. — Maya Angelou
My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me! — William Shakespeare
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. — Jean de la Bruyere
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. — Pierre Charron
We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous… — Carl Jung
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought… — Reuben Archer Torrey
When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us… — Karl Barth

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