(725 quotes found)
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
William Shakespeare
“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.”
Robert Herrick
“Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.”
William Wycherley
“Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature”
Petronius
“His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.”
Charles Stanley
“The well of true wit is truth itself”
George Meredith
“There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?”
Josh Billings
“The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.”
Mark Twain
“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
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
Winston Churchill
