Wit Quotes

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Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. — Oliver Goldsmith
When the wine is in, the wit is out. — Thomas Becon
For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a… — Raymond Dart
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native… — Jean de la Bruyere
It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on… — Thomas Jefferson
Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain… — Abraham Lincoln
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. — Hervey Allen
If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell? — Adrienne Rich
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. — William Shakespeare
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I… — John D. MacDonald
Pushing me away so I give her space, awww. Dealing wit a heart that I didn't break. — Drake
Moment I stop havin fun wit it, I'll be done wit it. — Drake
I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don't ever go unnoticed baby, I'm wit you, I'm wit it. — Drake
A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's… — Patricia Lee Gauch
Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. — Wallace B. Smith
Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart. — Andrew Boorde
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine… — Arthur Rubinstein
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. — Roger Ascham
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the… — James Boswell
Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . .… — Ray Stannard Baker

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