Finest Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

— Christopher Marlowe

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…

— John Dryden

Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

— Victor Hugo

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

— Ellis Peters

“Become desert, the great silty gobs Rise up in whirlwinds and subsist under miasma Of sediments aloft: dust-storms inherit The powerful cells of the…

— William Scott Home

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

— Alexander Pope

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

— Bryan Davis

The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.

— Wallace Stevens

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

— Laurence J. Peter

“The Mississippi looks like diluted mud by day but by night it's again the grand and majestic river of the days of tomahawks and…

— Rodney P. Romig

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they…

— Edward Young