Quotes
Quotes about Wit
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared with it.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
"Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.
Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray.
If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town; May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate, And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate. May I govern my passions with an absolute sway, Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away, Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay. - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
What we wish for others determines what we allow for ourselves. Unknown Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. â¢Greg Anderson A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. â¢Jean De La Bruyère Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification. â¢Robert Dato A wish is a desire without an attempt. â¢Farmer Digest Oh, the secret life of man and womanâdreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest. â¢Zelda Fitzgerald Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. â¢Jean Toomer Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. â¢Anonymous Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. â¢St. Augustine When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. â¢Elizabeth Bowen Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. â¢Goethe Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Wit is educated insolence.
An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.
What silly people wits are! [Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]
Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty.
We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it, As being loth to wear it out, And therefore bore it not about; Unless on holy days or so, As men their best apparel do.
Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights.
Do sometimes sink with their own weights. [Lat., Votre espril en donne aux autres.]
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.
