A Quote by Mark Twain

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Winston Churchill

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Oscar Wilde

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

William Shakespeare

Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.

Evan Esar

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

Albert Einstein

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

William Shakespeare

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

Horace

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

Thomas Jefferson

Wits always win, man, in the battle of brain versus brawn.

Tony Ferguson

If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.

Frederick Lenz

My dad is just like everybody else's dad. I see him as kind of a goofy guy with a great sense of humor. I try to get in a battle of wits with him, but he always gets me. I emulate him because I've never seen anyone work as hard as he does.

Peter Uihlein

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

Mickey Kaus

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

Mickey Kaus

Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.