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Tag Name "Wit" (874)

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Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.
John Webster
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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
Germaine Greer
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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.
Francis Bacon
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A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith
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The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length.
Jane Brereton
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But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!
Orison Swett Marden
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Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
Margaret Cavendish
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I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.
Jonathan Swift
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Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself then it will be worth listening to.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.
Graydon Carter
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This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
Alexander Pope
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Alexander Pope
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You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
Alexander Pope
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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, so I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.
Pete Seeger
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I would love to have a battle of wits with you, Bison, but I doubt it would be a fair fight.' 'Shut your face.' 'Exactly my point.
Derek Landy
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Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.
Epictetus
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Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
Wendell Berry
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Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.
Charles Churchill
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Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
George Eliot
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Wit resembles a coquette those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.
Joseph Chenier
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An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
Baltasar Gracian
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