Wit Quotes - Page 21

• Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wisdom, Silence, Sculpture

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• We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Praying, Wits End

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.303, Discovery House

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• Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.

  Beverley Nichols

  Life, Wise, Country

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• Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

  George Santayana

  Time, Nature, Science

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Soon as I see her walk up in the club, I'm a flirt. Winking eyes at me, when I roll up on them dubs, I'm a flirt. Sometimes when I'm with my chick on the low, I'm a flirt. And when she's wit her man looking at me, damn right, I'm a flirt.

  R. Kelly

  Flirty, Eye, Flirting

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• I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,
  Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
  Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
  For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause
  But rather reason thus with reason fetter,
  Love sought is good, but given unsought better.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Passion, Pride

  1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.

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• What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Men, Pretty Things

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.532

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• Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

  Joseph Chenier

  Intelligence, Genius, Taste

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• Like a sprained ankle boy I aint nothin to play wit

  Drake

  Badass, Humble, Boys

  Song: I Want This Forever

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• I'll be right here in my spot wit a lil more cash than I already got trippin off you cause you had your shot

  Drake

  Humble, Rapper, Entrepreneur

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• What's up wit these new niggas? And why they think it all come so easy?

  Drake

  Business, Humble, Thinking

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• How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those days you try and forget about take a shot and let it out.

  Drake

  Relationship, Drinking, Humble

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• Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin wit no makeup on. That's when you're the prettiest, I hope that you don't take it wrong.

  Drake

  Humble, Makeup, Hair

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• Baby girl you need to stop it, all that pride and self esteem got you angry bout this girl I'm wit in all them magazines.

  Drake

  Girl, Baby, Self Esteem

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• My dreams are who I'm racin wit but you can see I'm pacin it so that I'm always chasin it.

  Drake

  Dream, Humble, Rapper

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• Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.

  Drake

  Friendship, Relationship, Success

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• I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the unthinkable.

  Drake

  Relationship, Tattoo, Girl

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• Niggas wit no money act like money isn't everything.

  Drake

  Humble, Money Isn't Everything, No Money

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• There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Giving, Gossip

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.30

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• At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

  John Donne

  Greatness, Men, World

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• Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.

  Philip Sidney

  Peace, Sleep, Insomnia

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 39

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• This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Mean, Generations

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• There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Hope, Expectations, Desperation

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, Men, Thanks

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

  Alexander Pope

  Expression, Easy, Conversation

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.233

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