Wit Quotes

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It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.'… — Hilaire Belloc
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered… — Francis Bacon
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius. — Jean de la Bruyere
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must… — Francis Bacon
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment,… — Walter Savage Landor
...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It… — Robert Kennedy
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and… — George Eliot
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a… — Samuel Johnson
We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked. — Kyle Bradley
The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being… — Hannah More
I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance. — Todd Rogers
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who… — Maya Angelou
They have a plentiful lack of wit. — William Shakespeare
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him. — Minna Antrim
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. — Frank Muir
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the… — Roger Brooke Taney
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the… — Thomas Sprat
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage… — Oliver Goldsmith

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