Top 1200 Wit And Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.

..the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Yes, the real world is mysterious and sometimes frightening. But would the supernatural make it better? The real world has beauty, poetry, love and the joy of honest discovery. Isn't that enough?

He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.

Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can be done to improve them. But the great bulk of the people go with the moral tide of the moment. The leader must help create that tide. Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

I am shocked and slightly perturbed by his exuberance and quick wit. Knock Knock Channel 4

From the body of the unborn essence arises the sphere of light, and from that sphere of light arises wisdom. From the wisdom arises the seed syllable and from the seed syllable arises the complete Mandala, the deity and the retinue.

Let each of us accept the truth of the following statement and try to make it our most fundamental principle: Christ's teaching will never let us down, while worldly wisdom always will. Christ Himself said that this sort of wisdom was like a house with nothing but sand as its foundation, while His own was like a building with solid rock as its foundation.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

I bob and weave em, hit em wit that Mayweather JAB.

Actually, I can't take credit for any of my decisions. I noticed one day that all my decisions were making themselves, and always at the right time. I haven't had to make one decision since then. They are always made for me, and they come from the wisdom that is in us all. I trust that wisdom completely. That trust itself was a decision made for me as inquiry cleared my mind. No decision, no fear.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.

Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

Niggas wit no money act like money isn't everything.

New technologies make it possible for even the mass marketer to assume the role of a small proprietor, doing business again wit individuals, one at a time.

They say the streets is a demon in a dress, Wit dollar signs in her eyes and semen on her breath

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour!

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

I drifted into a career in academic philosophy because I couldn't see anything outside the academy that looked to be anything other than drudgery. But I wouldn't say I 'became a philosopher' until an early mid-life crisis forced me to confront the fact that, while 'philosophy' means 'love of wisdom', and 'wisdom' is the knowledge of how to live well, the analytic philosophy in which I had been trained seemed to have nothing to do with life.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.

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?