Witty Quotes
2578 quotes by 687 authors
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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
— Rita Rudner
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My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
— Rita Rudner
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I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't…
— Rita Rudner
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
— John Ruskin
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
— Bertrand Russell
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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Bertrand Russell
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
— Bertrand Russell
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
— Ernest Rutherford
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
— Carl Sagan
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My life needs editing.
— Mort Sahl
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
— George Sand
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
— Marilyn vos Savant
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Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
— Marilyn vos Savant
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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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