Top 296 Wits Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)
I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.
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.
Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say.
Now Mayweather has retired, Alavrez is the biggest name in boxing, and I'm looking forward to pitting my wits against him.
A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
The idea is not to have one great singer surrounded by a bunch of nit wits. When the others are good, too, that's when you get something happening in opera.
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.
Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet.
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
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.
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
To teach vain Wits that Science little known,
T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.
As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
All Premier League fixtures are tricky, you always need your wits about you whether you are playing top or bottom.
I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.
For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?
Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.
A poem's life and death dependeth still
Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.
Alvarez is the biggest name in boxing. I'm looking forward to pitting my wits against one of the best in the sport.
Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.
No I don't miss fighting, I still got my wits about me and there are a lot of people who do it and get beat up, and I don't want to be one of them, I have children to raise.
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.
No one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits.
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.
Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.
Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!
If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
