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Tag Name "Wits" (137)

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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
Bono
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It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
Anna Katharine Green
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Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.
Pierre Charron
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For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
Herodotus
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
William Shakespeare
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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
Louisa May Alcott
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Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!
Frances Parkinson Keyes
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A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century
Samuel Johnson
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
Alexander Pope
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A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Half-wits talk much, but say little.
Benjamin Franklin
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Alternative medicine people call themselves holistic and say it's the whole approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.
Stephen Fry
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One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
Alcaeus
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If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.
Donna Tartt
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I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us.
George Lincoln Rockwell
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Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.
Andrew Boorde
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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
William Shakespeare
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I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
Matthew Arnold
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Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.
Henry David Thoreau
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Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother Wits are gamecocks to one another.
John Gay
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Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.
Thomas Jefferson
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I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.
Jack Johnson
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Rappers are in danger Who will use wits to be a remainder?
O.C.
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