Wits Quotes

174 Wits quotes by 147 unique authors

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us… — Karl Barth
So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last. — Ethel Kennedy
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble. — Winston Churchill
She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I… — Elizabeth Montagu
This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords. — Samuel Johnson
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth… — Kenny Smith
Who said it first? We don't know, but very often we find the same ideas attributed to two different people. All we can do is… — Eden Phillpotts
Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries. — Jean de la Bruyere
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits. — George D. Prentice
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge. — Plato
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And… — Euripides
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought… — Wendell Berry
It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm. — Yehudi Menuhin
Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of… — Epictetus
[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were… — Charles Kingsley
Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might… — Mary Jane Ward
Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves… — Thomas Aquinas
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits. — William Shakespeare
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. — Jacques Barzun
Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents. — Lewis Thomas

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