Top 1200 Wits End Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.

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

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

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

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

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

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.

A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.

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

Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

Now Mayweather has retired, Alavrez is the biggest name in boxing, and I'm looking forward to pitting my wits against him.

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

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity.

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

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

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

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

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

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

All Premier League fixtures are tricky, you always need your wits about you whether you are playing top or bottom.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say.

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

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.

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

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

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

Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.

Alvarez is the biggest name in boxing. I'm looking forward to pitting my wits against one of the best in the sport.

Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.

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

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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

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

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.