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Success is the portion of the quick-witted and without humor the reigns decline.
Author:
Slim Shady - Eminem
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Amid concrete pathways and bustling voices, nature spills her secrets; alongside crackling brick and rut-stained stones lies a green feast begging anyone who dares glance slightly downwards.
Author:
Aspen Forayer
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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Don't mistake silence for unawareness; I'm just waiting for my turn to drop the most epic comeback.
Author:
Sarah Johnson
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Invest in kilts – they'll push you out of wearing two-person pants fast enough.
Author:
Michelangelo Angela
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When life gives you lemons, make it a Vodka Martini and stop being such a whiner.
Author:
Samantha Jones
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Laugh in the face of adversity, it messes with its head.
Author:
Jodi Picoult
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When life gives you lemons, don't just make lemonade - squeeze them back in life's eyes.
Author:
Rachel Davis
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When life gives you lemons, make a margarita and toast to making the best out of a sour situation.
Author:
Samantha Jones
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I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
Author:
John Zorn
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You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.
Author:
Isabel Yosito
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He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
Author:
William Wycherley
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Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
Author:
William Wycherley
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Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
Author:
Thomas Willis
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
Author:
James Thurber
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
Author:
James Thurber
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In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Author:
Virgil Thomson
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
Author:
William Temple
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Don't set your wit against a child.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
Author:
Stendhal
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Author:
Richard Steele
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Author:
Madame Stael
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Author:
Anne Stael
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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Author:
Sophocles
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Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Author:
Philip Sidney
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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There's many a man has more hair than wit.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.
Author:
Thomas Shadwell
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But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
Author:
William Seward
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No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Author:
John Selden
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
Author:
George Savile
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
Author:
Lord Russell
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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Author:
Joseph Roux
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
Author:
Antoine Rivarol
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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.
Author:
Jim Ramstad
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Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Author:
Emily Post
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
Author:
Anne Perry
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
Author:
William Penn
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Author:
Arthur Murphy
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Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
Author:
Gerry Mulligan
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
Author:
Elizabeth Montagu
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The well of true wit is truth itself.
Author:
George Meredith
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
Author:
Paul McCartney
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And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'
Author:
John McCain
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
Author:
W. Maugham
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Author:
W. Maugham
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Author:
W. Maugham
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Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.
Author:
Ray Manzarek
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Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.
Author:
Thomas Malory
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
Author:
Lucretius
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Author:
Stephen Leacock
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
Author:
Neil Kinnock
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Author:
Omar Khayyam
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His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
Author:
Anthony Hope
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
Author:
George Herbert
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.
Author:
Elton Gallegly
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The more wit the less courage.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Silence is the wit of fools.
Author:
Anatole France
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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.
Author:
Edward Fitzgerald
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Author:
Mark Doren
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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
Author:
John Donne
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I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.
Author:
Janice Dickinson
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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Author:
Noel Coward
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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.
Author:
Chris Cooper
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Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
Author:
Mason Cooley
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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
Author:
William Congreve
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To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
Author:
William Congreve
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
Author:
William Congreve
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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Author:
Colley Cibber
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It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
Author:
Maurice Chevalier
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Author:
Alexander Chase
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Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
Author:
Emanuel Celler
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And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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Your wit makes others witty.
Author:
Catherine Catherine II
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Author:
Lord Byron
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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
Author:
James Boswell
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
Author:
James Boswell
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Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
Author:
John Blackie
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Author:
Pierre Bayle
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
Author:
Avicenna
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Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
Author:
Mary Astell
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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
Author:
Mary Astell
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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Author:
Roger Ascham
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Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Author:
Roger Ascham
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Wit is educated insolence.
Author:
Aristotle
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Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
Author:
Minna Antrim
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There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.
Author:
Jensen Ackles
