“You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.”
Will Rogers
“Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment”
Arnold Bennett
“It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues”
Jean de la Bruyere
“Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.”
Minna Antrim
“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
Joseph Roux
“The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.”
William Orville Douglas
“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”
George Savile