Wits Quotes - page 5

The sworn enemies of Hindu society have taken advantage of this enervation of the Hindus. They feel instinctively that threats coupled with some show of violence are sure to frighten the Hindus out of their wits, and make them yield almost anything including precious parts of their homeland. (Sita Ram Goel)
What are you trying to do, Kerouac? I'd ask myself in my sleepingbag at night, trying to deny reality with all this Buddha stuff, ya jerk?... Poor detailed immaculate incarnate fool, and you call yourself Self ... Take off your coat and crash wits. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Some have at first for Wits then Poets past, Turned Critics next, and proved plain fools at last. View quote
Alexander Pope
The poor child, as Charles Lamb so touchingly expresses it, is not brought, but "dragged out," and if the wits are sharpened, so, too, is the soft, round cheek. The crippled limb and broken constitution attest the effects of the over-early struggle with penury; but the child of rich parents suffers, though in another way; there is the heart that is crippled, by the selfishness of indulgence and the habit of relying upon others. It takes years of harsh contact with the realities of life to undo the enervating work of a spoilt and over aided childhood. We cannot too soon learn the strong and useful lessons of exertion and self-dependance. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is no denying the fact, that in all sudden emergencies a woman has ten times the presence of mind, or, to use the common expression, her wits more about her than a man. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. View quote
Ben Jonson
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. View quote
Ben Jonson
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us. View quote
Seneca
The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting. View quote
Arundhati Roy
I never worshipped anything but my sword and my wits; now I suffer for it. But I can take it, for am I not a man? (David Gemmell)
Men who hover over their opponents have no cause to evolve a science of wrestling; and Theseus is conventionally shown in combat with hulking of monstrous enemies, living by his wits. View quote
Mary Renault
Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre," Tessa pointed out. "No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?" "You would make a very ugly woman." "I would not. I would be stunning. View quote
Cassandra Clare
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. View quote
Donna Tartt
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this their poetry is conceived in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul. View quote
Matthew Arnold
I cannot sufficiently admire the eminence of those men's wits. View quote
Galileo Galilei
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. View quote
John Dos Passos
A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order. View quote
Frederick II of Prussia
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Half wits talk much, but say little. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges. (David Suzuki)
I have taken to living by my wits. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
For Wits are treated just like Common Whores; First they're enjoy'd, and then kickt out of Doors. View quote
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books.... They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages. View quote
Francis Bacon
Wearing their wits, which means their laughter, As their crown. Set free upon the earth By simple gifts of knowing how mere mirth can cut the bonds And pull the blood spikes out. View quote
Ray Bradbury