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Tag Name "Wit" (874)

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I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.
Louis L'Amour
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It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Rappers are in danger Who will use wits to be a remainder?
O.C.
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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer
Douglas Adams
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Like a sprained ankle boy I aint nothin to play wit
Drake
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It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.
Lord Chesterfield
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
Agnes Repplier
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Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
Louis Kronenberger
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
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Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!
Robert Louis Stevenson
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As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit.
Jim Ramstad
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One should have wit, but not wish to have it otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
Alexander Pope
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
Joseph Joubert
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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
David R. Brower
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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
Oscar Wilde
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
Novalis
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
Edward Young
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They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte. Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]
Torquato Tasso
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