Wits Quotes

174 Wits quotes by 147 unique authors

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by… — George Sand
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness... — Robert E. Howard
In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel… — Dorothea Brande
I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know I'm not dead,… — Pete Seeger
Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface… — John Dryden
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser… — Ben Jonson
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats… — Ben Jonson
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state. — John Selden
The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood… — Lady Gregory
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. — John Dryden
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in… — Rudyard Kipling
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. — Ben Okri
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. — John Dos Passos
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. — Alexander Pope
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the… — Theodore Roosevelt
The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and… — Arundhati Roy
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. — Bertrand Russell
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to… — David Suzuki
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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