Wit Quotes

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Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door;… — David McCord
Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again. — H. L. Mencken
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational… — Mark Twain
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none. — Denis Diderot
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they… — Walter Raleigh
The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy any recipe for… — Robert Farrar Capon
I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their… — Audrey Hepburn
It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at… — Edgar Degas
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim — Billy Graham
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... — Robert Henri
Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh? — Julia Roberts
And I just hope that I'm forgiven for carin bout how they livin and loanin a little money and keepin em outta prison I aint… — Drake
Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life — Drake
One nice thing about putting the thing away for a couple of months before looking at it is that you start appreciate your own wit.… — Steven Brust
There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see… — Janet Morris
... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain… — John Knox
I'll be there for you, I will care for you, I keep thinking you just don't know. Tryna run from that, say you're done wit… — Drake
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
It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear… — Alfred Adler

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