Top 296 Wits Quotes & Sayings

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

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

I have taken to living by my wits.

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

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

The finest wits have their sediment.

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

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

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

My wits begin to turn.

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

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

Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

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

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

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

The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

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

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

I'm always very grateful for stories about the great coffeehouse wits in Vienna at the turn of the last century. People would wait for a chance to stand near the table where the great wits were trading witticisms as a spectator sport because it was that good. They were that on fire and there was no product. They didn't write anything down. It was just the pleasure of engagement with the moment. I think that's my kind of ideal of how I live.

I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes a dominant factor.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

Good wits will jump.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

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

I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves

Your wits make others witty.

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

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children.

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

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

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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

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

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

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

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

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.

City wits, country humorists.

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

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

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