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Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
Mark Twain
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I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.
Marlon Brando
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Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
Stan Laurel
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.
Jack Vance
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A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.
Big L
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Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.
Graydon Carter
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
Novalis
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As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.
David Eddings
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As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.
Pythagoras
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I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don't ever go unnoticed baby, I'm wit you, I'm wit it.
Drake
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
Joseph Addison
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
Victor Hugo
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Niggas wit no money act like money isn't everything.
Drake
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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Wilkie Collins
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Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.
Tom Lehrer
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To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.
Saadi
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[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
Tallulah Bankhead
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If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.
Dorothy Day
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Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
Gerry Mulligan
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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Mark Twain
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Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.
Leo Tolstoy
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There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
Josh Billings
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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Helen Rowland
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The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.
Phillip Lopate
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Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit,
And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?
Aphra Behn
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So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.
Ethel Kennedy
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To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
Aldous Huxley
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Wit is the flower of the imagination.
Livy
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Francis Bacon
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I never have wit until I am below stairs.
[Fr., Je n'ai jamais d'esprit qu'au bas de l'escalier.]
Jean de la Bruyere