Wits Quotes

174 Wits quotes by 147 unique authors

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. — Alcaeus
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a… — John Donne
I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me. — Richard Branson
I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of… — Peter Matthiessen
The Drab Age is over. Color is coming into its own again. Until very recently people were literally scared out of their wits by color.… — Dorothy Draper
Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits. — Christopher Marlowe
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of… — Frances Parkinson Keyes
I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my… — Charlotte Bronte
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. — Charles Brenton Huggins
Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them. — Michel Faber
It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is no evidence that… — Zeena Schreck
The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious,… — Edith Wharton
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. — J.R.R. Tolkien
There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busyâ€”they've so cluttered up their livesâ€”they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only… — Mike Yaconelli
What are wits for unless a man uses them? — Ellis Peters
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits… — Edward Dahlberg
Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits can vibrate anything… — L. Ron Hubbard
But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is… — Orison Swett Marden
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits. — Neil Kinnock
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. — Pierre Charron

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