Wit Quotes - Page 32

• We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ice Cream, House, Dessert

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.133, Рипол Классик

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• Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

  Harry Hay

  Identity Politics, Giving, Support

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• There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy—they've so cluttered up their lives—they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, “I love you.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Love You, People, Busy

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• What are wits for unless a man uses them?

  Ellis Peters

  Men, Use

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.2693, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Self, Mazes, Torches

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• Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

  Walter Kirn

  Hate, Real, Alternatives

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• There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.

  Pierre Bayle

  Book, Firsts, Talent

  Pierre Bayle (1735). “The Dictionary Historical and Critical of Mr. Peter Bayle”, p.779

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• Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

  Steve Morse

  Singers, Subtle, Offbeat

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• Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps the romantic intrigue smoldering. With Hope's Folly, Linnea Sinclair builds on a secure reputation as a leading fashioner of science fiction romance. She straddles and blends these genres with a unique bravura and wit.

  Philip K. Jason

  War, Passion, Unique

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• The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to it. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, patience.

  Howard Zinn

  Determination, Struggle, Sacrifice

  Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.27, South End Press

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• To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.

  Tom Stoppard

  Drama, Focus, Tea

  Tom Stoppard (2011). “The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays”, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,
  The one's for use, the other useth it.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Use, Fairness

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Othello: Third Series”, p.171, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Style, Would Be

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 418

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• Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

  Martin Amis

  Beautiful, Games, Perfect

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• Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Attitude, Writing

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

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• We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."

  Octavio Paz

  Life, Roots, Individuality

  Octavio Paz (1987). “1904-1912”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?

  Blaise Pascal

  Reality, Men, Cells

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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• Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death is considered loss and life is considered gain. Thus, death is something that such a person does not care for, and he is contemptable. Furthermore, scholars and their like are men who with wit and speech hide their own true cowardice and greed. People often misjudge this.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Truth, Loss, Men

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered. Françoise barely suppressed a scream. The girl was pressing the lighted end against her skin, a bitter smile curling her lips. It was an intimate, solitary smile, like that of a half-wit; the voluptuous, tortured smile of a woman possessed of some secret pleasure.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Girl, Secret, Skins

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• I'm the best now Anybody wit some money should invest now

  Nicki Minaj

  Bragging, Should

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• I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.

  Nicki Minaj

  Money, Church, Dollars

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• Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile

  Nicki Minaj

  Money, Names, Rhyme

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• On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Memories, Son, Shining

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• But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

  William H. Seward

  Fall, Men, Law

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• Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, People, Mad

  Edward Dahlberg (1968). “The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality”, New York : Weybright and Talley

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