Wits Quotes
174 quotes by 151 authors
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or…
— Bono
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I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I…
— Alton Brown
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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits…
— Louisa May Alcott
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When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in…
— Oswald Chambers
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We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.
— Oswald Chambers
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There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Your wits make others witty.
— Catherine the Great
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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
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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
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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
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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[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
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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
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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
— Hervey Allen
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
— Adrienne Rich
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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
— William Shakespeare
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Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.
— Andrew Boorde
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A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start…
— Aristophanes
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All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
— Jonathan Swift
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