Wits Quotes

174 quotes by 151 authors

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
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
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
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
We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end. — Oswald Chambers
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. — Elizabeth Bowen
Your wits make others witty. — Catherine the Great
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
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
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
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
[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
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
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
Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart. — Andrew Boorde
A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. — Hunter S. Thompson
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
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. — Jonathan Swift

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