Top Wits Quotes
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
Victor Hugo
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
Rudyard Kipling
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
Hervey Allen 
Bertrand Russell 
Arundhati Roy 
John Dryden All Wits Quotes
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts 
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One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
Charles Brenton Huggins
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Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.
Tim Page
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Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
John Dos Passos
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I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
Alton Brown
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We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
William Stephenson
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She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.
Elizabeth Montagu
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
Ben Okri
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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Hervey Allen
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Popular Wits Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldVictor HugoBertrand RussellAlexander PopeTheodore RooseveltJohn DrydenRudyard KiplingLouisa May AlcottAlton BrownEdward DahlbergAustin O'MalleyJohn Dos PassosBen Okri
Oswald ChambersGotthold Ephraim LessingMichael EastArundhati RoyTim PageEden PhillpottsHervey AllenMichael MoorerGeorge VilliersElizabeth MontaguCharles Brenton HugginsWilliam Stephenson
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