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Tag Name "Wit" (871)

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How every fool can play upon the word!
William Shakespeare
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There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.
John Muir
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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
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
Agnes Repplier
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Wit is artificial humor is natural. Wit is accidental humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
Agnes Repplier
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
Agnes Repplier
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Whatever has wit enough to keep it sweet defies corruption and outlasts all time but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
Agnes Repplier
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Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.
Aeschylus
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
Adrienne Rich
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai Stevenson I
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A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.
Penelope Gilliatt
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The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Omar Khayyam
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He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
Yogi Berra
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra
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The future ain't what it used to be.
Yogi Berra
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Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Nathanael Emmons
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So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one
Zack de la Rocha
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I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min
Samuel Johnson
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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.
Plato
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It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
William Shenstone
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On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.
George Will
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Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
Edith Wharton
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If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
Henry David Thoreau
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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Frank Muir
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