Wit Quotes - Page 28

• It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Design, Doctrine

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.510, Simon and Schuster

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• I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

  Charles Darwin

  Clever, Men, Huxley

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.443, Broadview Press

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• So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one

  Zack de la Rocha

  Men, People, Grandparent

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• It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

  Alan Turing

  Thinking, Should Have, Long

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• I know a lot of people have a hard time talking dirty - they dont know what to say, how to start, or when to end it. Also, at first they will think they sound ridiculous. And they might. But let me just say that talking dirty is so important in sex. And its pretty easy. To wit: Establish from the very beginning that you like this. And trust me, you want to do it early on. Because if you wait too long to introduce the concept, your Special Lady Friend will be a little thrown and might not take you seriously.

  Olivia Munn

  Sex, Dirty, Hard Times

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• Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

  Emily Post

  Women, Believe, Worry

  EMILY POST (1950). “ETIQUETTE”

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• I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you ni**as/Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you ni**as/They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you ni**as

  Kendrick Lamar

  Hip Hop, Verbs, Nouns

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• O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.

  Gaspara Stampa

  Giving, Sensual, Strange

  Gaspara Stampa, “Rime 28”

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• That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another

  Fred Trueman

  Two, Cricket, Cricket Funny

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• One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  People, Risk, Culture

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• It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.

  William Davenant

  Hate, Abuse, Sin

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• Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Men, Solitude, Loner

  John Stuart Blackie (1857). “Lays and legends of ancient Greece: with other poems”, p.260

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• Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

  Adam Gopnik

  Mind, Essentials, Bugs

  "Get Smart" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.

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• Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity.

  Claudius

  Important, Quality, Quantity

  "Fictional character: Claudius". "I, Claudius". Episode 11: "Fool's Luck", www.imdb.com. November 22, 1976.

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• Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, Moving, Fall

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• My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.

  Edmond Rostand

  Heart, Men, Mustache

  Edmond Rostand (1995). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, Talonbooks Limited

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• Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does it again. He argues that it is not just an option but an obligation for people to use available biomedical technologies to enhance their own--and their children's--physical and mental abilities. Harris rightly deserves his reputation for fearlessly following his ethical arguments wherever they lead.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Children, Technology, Careers

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• A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his times-the niceties of which (so complicated, so exquisitely intertwined) Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit. Above all this is the story of a touching young man who insisted on being something better than simply the smartest person in the room.

  Blake Bailey

  Men, Giving, Touching

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• No one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits.

  Cub Koda

  Rocks, House, Foundation

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• Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

  Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

  Peace, Men, Civilization

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• For the May Day is the great day,
  Sung along the old straight track.
  And those who ancient lines did ley
  Will heed this song that calls them back...
  Pass the cup, and pass the Lady,
  And pass the plate to all who hunger,
  Pass the wit of ancient wisdom,
  Pass the cup of crimson wonder.

  Jethro Tull

  Song, Track, Great Day

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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

  Pertinent Questions, Assuming, Sensible

  Jack Vance (2000). “Rhialto the Marvellous”, p.720, Macmillan

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• Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Style, Age, Way

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto III)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,
  That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;
  Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,
  Their names without a record are forgot,
  Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dust
  Nor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust;
  But he whose name is graved in the white stone
  Shall last and shine when all of these are gone.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Kings, Men, Dust

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.381

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• Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American men who failed. With wit and sympathy, Sandage illuminates the grey world of credit evaluation, a little studied smothering arm of capitalism. This is history as it should be, a work of art exploring the social cost of our past.

  William S. McFeely

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

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