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“When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.”

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Author:Jack Smith

“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.”

Age Wit Old Age Accomplishment Charm Sense Of Humor Maintaining Greatest Accomplishment

Book:Unfinished journey

Source: Unfinished journey

“Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.”

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Author:Epictetus

“...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.”

Source: Johnson's Lives of the British Poets

“'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...”

People Love Virtue Honest Wit One Love Benevolence Wisest Fondness Wittiest

Author:Hester Lynch Piozzi

“I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.”

Difficult Personality Wit

Author:Bob Geldof

“Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.”

Skills Competition Wit Psychological Warfare Matching Psychological Warfare

Author:Lou Brock

“Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.”

Years Wit Idiot

Book:Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

“Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.”

Wit Graves Tombs

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.”

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Author:Elton Gallegly

“I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.”

Littles Lasts Fun Appreciate Simplicity Wit True Beauty

Author:Elliott Erwitt

“[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anything so curious and so ridiculous as a lobster.”

Ifs Men World Science Wit Ridiculous Invention Curious Ingenious Lobster

Book:The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

Source: The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

“... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science or art. No one even talked politics. It was all idleness, and whenever I asked someone a question, no matter how simple, no matter how well the person spoke English, there was always a long pause before I got a reply, and I found these Pacific pauses maddening. And there was giggling but no humor - no wit. It was just foolery.”

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Author:Paul Theroux

“Wit doesn't make girls pretty.”

Author:Jeanne Calment

“One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.”

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Author:Rebecca Hall

“You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.”

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Author:Eminem

“This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.”

Please Fellows Wit Pigeons Peas

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes