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Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.
Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.
The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.
I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.
I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)
I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don't ever go unnoticed baby, I'm wit you, I'm wit it.
Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.
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.
It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.
Witten was my guy. I stayed in Wit's hip pocket and did everything I could to learn from him, learn how to be a pro.
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.
I like Shah Rukh for his wit, intelligence, grit and determination, and Akshay for the way he interacts with people.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
I really like sardonicism and wit. I love the writing of Joy Williams and Lorrie Moore. I like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer.
I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about
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.
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
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.
This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.
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?
When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.