Top 1200 Battle Of Wits Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record.

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity.

Your wits make others witty.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t know any of the characters yet so why should I care about this battle) or with a pastoral scene where the protagonist is gathering herbs (I didn’t realize how common this is).

It's always said that when one is a soldier who dies in battle, you go to a very high world. There's a great and good karma for the soldier who dies in battle because it's an extended selfless giving.

Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

If you're a battle rapper on the block, the emcee battle challenger, not writing your rhymes could really hurt you. When you're an artist where maybe the focus is really the talent and the different things you bring to the game, I believe it's more understandable.

I think about food all the time, so making peace with eating is a daily battle for me. I won't say I've completely figured it out, but I will say that right now, I win that battle more days than I lose it, and I believe that's the key.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves

Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies.

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

Rappers are in danger Who will use wits to be a remainder?

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been determined by the amount of time, energy, thought and training an individual has previously accomplished in an effort to increase his ability as a fighter pilot.

Passover is very important to God. But satan HATES Passover. The enemy has worked diligently to steal Passover away. The good news is: God is restoring Passover. But it is a battle! The battle for Passover is the battle for the Blood. Satan wants to give us a bloodless religion, because a bloodless religion has no power. The power is in the Blood!

I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

You must have your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me.

The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.

We could have lost faith and just let this battle with cancer get the best of us, or I could give my daughter's battle with cancer a purpose and use my platform to try to raise as much awareness as possible.

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children.

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

It's almost ironic sitting here watching stories about Norm's courageous 'battle' with cancer. He actually did a bit on stage about how stupid that is. What battle? It's your own body. Is it a win or lose thing?

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.

That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.