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Tag Name "Wit" (878)

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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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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
Voltaire
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Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.
Julie Burchill
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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
Alexander Pope
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Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of image and detail. Try taking walks as you are reading this book- the dazzle of landscapes, inner and outer, feel replenished and rich. This is language and vision I want to come home to again and again.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.
Charles Caleb Colton
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A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.
D. H. Lawrence
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Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football instead of building character, it tears it down.
Florence King
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Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
Chris Cooper
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and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?
Charles Bukowski
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The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.
Benjamin Franklin
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An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
Benjamin Franklin
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Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon
Tony Blair
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It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?
Hubert H. Humphrey
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Alexander Pope
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Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Jonathan Swift
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My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.
Edith Sitwell
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