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“After wisdom comes wit.”

Author:Evan Esar

“Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.”

People Wells Has Beens Made Given Deals Mystery Skills Prepared Wit Welcome Excellent Conventions Anchors

Author:Anne Perry

“A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.”

War Hard Law Wit Core Flaws Exes Toasts Hard Core

Author:Big L

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

Two Half Fashion Wit

Author:Neil Kinnock

“I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.”

People Knows Life Mean Used Mother Black Intellectual Intelligent Grateful Wit Educated Rely Old People Womb Mother Wit

Author:Maya Angelou

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

People Country Mother Generations Motherhood Wit Collectives Homely Collective Wisdom Mother Wit

Author:Maya Angelou

“My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!”

Mother Father Parent Tongue Wit Parenthood

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fusell, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fusell, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes

“It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.”

Wells Enough Silence Judgment Silent Wit Misfortunes

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.”

Mind Fortune Wounds Wit Hardship Provoking Lowest

Book:Of wisdom: Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, ...

Source: Of wisdom: Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, ...

“We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.”

Ifs Men Way Want Persons Together Past Desire Deals Effort Emotion Personality Conscious Shadow Burden Wit Enormous Primitive Inferiors Our Past Neurosis

Author:Carl Jung

“For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago.”

Source: Our Bible: How We Got It and Ten Reasons Why I Believe the Bible is the Word of God

“When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?”

Giving Wells Stills Ends Spirit Answers Holy Wit Holy Spirit Wits End

Author:Karl Barth

“Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire”

Men Form Wise Fool Wit Aspire Stoops Pun

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.”

Firsts Play Feelings Natural Ability Class Grace Amount Musician Jazz Wit Jazz Music Hallmark First Class Jazz Musician Natural Ability Ability To Adapt

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“With a title like this-There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick-is there really a whole lot left to say? With cunning and quintessential stealth, with artful restraint, with whats fathering and foxy and filled with intelligence and wit, Michael Teig goes about making what seems to be invisible and unspeakable, the most palpable and important matter in the world.”

World Important Matter Whole Seems Left Beats Filled Sticks Boxes Wit Invisible Titles Restraint Cunning Garage Unspeakable Stealth Quintessential Fathering

Author:Dara Wier

“Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.”

Government Might Wit Accord

Author:Elizabeth I

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

Might Lasts Wit

Author:Ethel Kennedy

“A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.”

Feelings Imagination Glasses Wit Nerves Champagne Impart Exhilaration Nimble Drinking Champagne Champagne Drinking

Book:The Story of the Malakand Field Force

Source: The Story of the Malakand Field Force

“Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.”

Sometimes Christian Religion Atheism Wit

Author:William Shakespeare

“With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.”

Powerful Compassion Land Habit Economics Painful Disappointment Resilience Brilliant Wit Dry Prose Melancholy Steady Mastery Elegant Uncommon Austen Impeccable

Author:Maggie Shipstead

“His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.”

Looks Home Wit Invites

Author:William Cowper

“You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.”

Home Body Please Beats Wit Fancy

Author:Alexander Pope

“VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.”

Suffering Understanding Understood Wit Impediments Dunces

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.”

Wells Sometimes Known Records Fields Friends Dad Direct Raised My Dad Wit Our Family Sense Of Humor Family And Friends Well Known Surreal Quick Wit

Author:Tony Visconti

“She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.”

Party Opinion Months Letters Regard Wit Admire Honour Assembly Oysters Lament

Author:Elizabeth Montagu

“I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!”

Firsts Reason Success Succeed Quitting Wit Frustration I Quit

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.”

Book Wit Miscellaneous

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.”

Talking Favors Wit Expenses

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.”

Author:Samuel Johnson

“In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.”

Ifs Said Courses Forever Learning Goes On Truth Is Dues Wit Destination Sailor

Author:Richard Bode

“In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.”

Wells Wisdom Earth Grace Minutes Projects Crisis Wit Considering Shaking Shaking It

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.”

Wisdom House White Rights Streets Wit Civil Rights White House

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which they live. All I know is that they are there and we are trying to do something about it.”

People Knows Trying Wisdom Poverty Judging Wit Locked

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.”

Wisdom Wanted Spirit Differences Deals Despair Wit Sickness Participation Vitality Surviving Debauchery

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .”

People Believe Wisdom Nations Justice Talking Liberty Ought Quitting Wit Liberty And Justice Justice For All One Nation Under God Liberty And Justice For All

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.”

People Want Humans Wisdom Justice Expression Dignity Wit Fulfillment Human Dignity Personal Expression

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.”

Mean Wisdom Limits Wit Exception Imposing Footnotes Equality For All

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."”

Men World Humans Children Wisdom Kids America Opportunity Clear Equal Committed Wit Every Man Around The World Brotherhood Men Women Equal Opportunity

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.”

People Believe Made Wisdom I Believe Differences Conflict Goodness Wit Making A Difference

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.”

Wisdom Differences Defeat Wit Defeated

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.”

Should Philosophy Wisdom Benefits Wit Trickle Down

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.”

Country Wisdom America Opportunity Nations President Poor Boys Teacher Promise Towns South Vices Wit Senators Mayors Vice President Dakota Small Countries South Dakota Poor Boy

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is the message of human ideals; it is the message of human dignity; it is the message of the freedom of ideas, speech, press, the right to assemble, to worship, and the message of freedom of movement of people.”

People Humans Ideas States Wisdom Spiritual United United States Movement Speech Worship Messages Ideals Dignity Presses Nuclear Wit Human Dignity Nuclear Power

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.”

Wisdom Life Is Poor Levels Poverty Hunger Wit Acceptable Unemployment Ruined Poor Health Ruined Life

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.”

People Mind Humans Heart Wisdom Values Dignity Universal Hunger Wit Recognition Heart And Mind Human Dignity

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.”

World Wisdom Poor Rich Dangerous Threat Wit Gaps

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether those little sums were rightly cast up or not; and at last finding the error visible, and not mistrusting their first grounds, know not which way to clear themselves; but spend time in fluttering over their books, as birds that entering by the chimney, and finding themselves enclosed in a chamber, flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in.”

Source: The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works

“...he had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth were equipped with trolley tracks, and suddenly grabbing it out and gesticulating wit it before he jammed it back.”

Ifs Mouths Track Corners Technique Wit Teeth Fascinating Cigar Grabbing Trolleys

Author:Leslie Ford

“A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.”

Stills Force Justice Battle Evidence Logic Weight Wit Trials Knives Spears Gleam Blazing Ordeals

Author:Lloyd Paul Stryker

“And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, "Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area."”

People Humans States Government Environment Drug Areas Wit Secure Southern Warning Smuggling

Author:John McCain