Wits Quotes

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)
The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
This man Chesterfield, I thought, had been a Lord among wits but I find he is only a wit among Lords. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. View quote
John Dryden
Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things. View quote
Rick Riordan
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day. View quote
John Donne
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. View quote
Stephen Fry
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both. View quote
Ben Jonson
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. View quote
Joseph Addison
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness... View quote
Robert E. Howard
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper. (Wilkie Collins)
Great wits jump. View quote
Laurence Sterne
O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife. View quote
Matthew Arnold
If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people. View quote
Ray Bradbury
In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much. View quote
Hugo Weaving
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. View quote
George Lincoln Rockwell
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits." View quote
Kenneth Boulding
Good wits jump; 45 a word to the wise is enough. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past. View quote
Stefan Zweig
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts. View quote
Mike Tyson
Ancient histories, as one of our wits has said, are but fables that have been agreed upon. (Voltaire)
So many heads so many wits. View quote
John Heywood
If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog. View quote
Frances Hardinge
So is there any part of you that's not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head. View quote
David Eddings