Top 542 Witty Sayings Quotes & Sayings

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of like a table of contents to the Christian hope. They invite us to go into all the aspects of the heart of Jesus. Everything about them from the drama, the setting, the passion around them - I think the seven sayings of the cross are powerful.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

The truest sayings are paradoxical.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.

My dad has sayings for days. 'You bloom where you're planted' ties into farming, but it also sums up the ideals and morals that we have as a family by staying in Firebaugh.

I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

My commentary's hilarious, not witty.

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

My lines are witty in nature and I love to be surrounded by people who are witty.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

Here's other quotes and sayings you can motivate yourself with. Practice only makes for improvement.

Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin.

My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.

Tired people aren't witty

I prefer sayings over jokes.

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.

In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, 'Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,' and that we should 'run at criticism.'

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don't make any sense.

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

You may be witty, but not satirical.

I was not a witty girl.

I don't think I'm a witty person. To me, a witty person is a funny person who is also a smart person. My friend David Rakoff, who died a few years ago, he was a witty person. Fran Lebowitz is a witty person. I don't think there are that many witty people around, so you tend to notice them when they do come around. I don't consider myself to be that.

Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say that we know what the other sex is all about, but is that really true? Perhaps the following witty, funny quotes and sayings can help simplify things down about men.

If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.

I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no".

Philosophical ideas and sayings are great. They give us a little boost, a nudge in the arm, a fire in the belly.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

A little extra forgiveness never hurts," said Matt, quoting one of Celia's favorite sayings.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.

I'm not witty.

One of the best sayings in tennis and sport is that pressure is a privilege.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.