Source: Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions
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“The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.”
Source: High spirits
“Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”
Source: Love's last shift; Woman's wit; Love makes a man; She would and she would not
“Breakin down the weed about to make a plane, a hundred niggas wit me all reppin taylor gang.”
Source: Literature and life, lects
Source: Dreamers of the Ghetto
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Source: A Dictionary Of The English Language; In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals; And Illustrated In Their Different Significations, By Examples From The Best Writers: Together With A History of the Language, and an English Grammar
“The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.”
“He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.”
“What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare ...: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical
“Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.”
Source: The Republic
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
“To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson
“The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.”
Source: Euripides: The Cyclops, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Heracles, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by W. Bynner. Helen translated by R. Lattimore
“True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles
“Wit and wisdom are born with a man.”
Source: Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq., or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence. Relating especially to religion and state
Source: Aims of Education
“The well of true wit is truth itself.”
Source: Diana of The Crossways
Source: It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays
Source: The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill