Wit Quotes - page 13

An epigram is the marriage of wit, and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce. (Evan Esar)
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. View quote
Virgil Thomson
When I was born good fairies clustered round my cradle, showering me with wit, beauty, grace, freedom from dandruff, natural piety and other great gifts, but the Wicked Fairy Carabosse (who had not been invited to the party) crept to my side and screamed "Let him be cursed with Inability To Do Little Jobs Around The House", and so it has always been. View quote
Robertson Davies
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. View quote
Lord Byron
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
A batsman given to run-stealing need not open his mouth to gain the reputation of a wit. View quote
Herbert Farjeon
An eccentric, gangling man, whose sardonic wit somewhat compensated for his shallow mind. View quote
Ernst Hanfstaengl
If a man wants to succeed in his work, that is, to achieve the anticipated results, he must bring his ideas into correspondence with the laws of the objective external world; if they do not correspond, he will fail in his practice. After he fails, he draws his lessons, corrects his ideas to make them correspond to the laws of the external world, and can thus turn failure into success; this is what is meant by "failure is the mother of success" and "a fall into the pit, a gain in your wit". View quote
Mao Zedong
Whereas many socialists have recently put their faith in market socialism, nineteenth-century socialists were, by contrast, for the most part opposed to market organization of economic life. The mainstream socialist pioneers favored something that they thought would be far superior, to wit, comprehensive central planning, which, it was hoped, could realize the socialist ideal of a truly sharing society. And the pioneers' successors were encouraged by what they interpreted as victories of planning, such as the industrialization of the Soviet Union and the early institution of educational and medical provision in the People's Republic of China. But central planning, at least as practiced in the past, is, we now know, a poor recipe for economic success, at any rate once a society has provided itself with the essentials of a modern productive system. View quote
Gerald Cohen
Early in life, most of us probably observe an unhappy relationship between labor and wealth - to wit, the heavier the labor, the less the wealth. The man doing heavy manual work makes less than the man who makes a machine work for him, and this man makes less than the man sitting at a desk. The really rich people, the kind who go around on yachts and collect old books and new wives, do no labor at all. The economic reasons for dividing the money this way are clear enough. One, it has always been done that way; and two, it's too hard to change at this late date. But the puzzling question is why, since the money is parceled out on this principle, young people are constantly being pummeled to take up a life of labor. In any sensible world, the young would be told they could labor if they wanted to, but warned that if they did so it would cost them. (Russell Baker)
My song shall spread where ever there are men, If wit and art will so much guide my pen. View quote
Luís de Camões
[But] to sing of your face, a composition in itself sublime and marvelous, I lack knowledge, Lady, and wit and art. View quote
Luís de Camões
The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length. View quote
Jane Brereton
A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty? View quote
Mason Cooley
A woman of wit is a devil of intrigue. View quote
Molière
thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce. View quote
William Shakespeare
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. View quote
William Shakespeare
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. View quote
William Shakespeare
O, learn to read what silent love hath writ, To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. (William Shakespeare)
There's many a man has more hair than wit. View quote
William Shakespeare
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite. View quote
William Shakespeare
If you're in the mood for something that's completely visceral and mindless (really mindless - the plot is a joke, filled with contrivances and coincidences), this movie will fit the bill. Parts of it are excruciatingly bad, but there are numerous examples of well-directed action that, on balance, compensate for the worst gaffes. This is a poor man's Die Hard. It has the explosions, gunplay, and spectacular stunts, but little of the wit and intelligence. In other words, it's a typical summer action flick. View quote
James Berardinelli
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government. View quote
Elizabeth I of England