Good Wits Quotes

#1. The lucky ones are the people like your husband there. The ones who find work that means something to them. That they can really put their heart into, however foolish it might look to other people.

Michael Chabon

#2. Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

Plato

#3. His wits were coming back to him, however slowly. That was good. His wits were all he had.

George R R Martin

#4. I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#5. Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they're lookin' there; throw it there when they're lookin' here.

Satchel Paige

#6. The barber in his shop, warmed by a good stove, was shaving a customer and casting from time to time a look towards this enemy, this frozen and brazen gamin, who had both hands in his pockets, but his wits evidently out of their sheath.

Victor Hugo

#7. The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#8. Children came running with their mothers' scissors, or the carving knife, or the paternal razor, or anything else that lacked an edge (except, indeed, poor Clifford's wits) that the grinder might apply the article to his magic wheel, and give it back as good as new.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.

Jacques Chirac

#10. I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know I'm not dead, so I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.

Pete Seeger

#11. She might be frightened out of her wits and confused as hell, but she was a Southern girl, born and bred. Mama would fly down from heaven and tan her hide good if she wasn't polite.

Tonya Burrows

#12. Good wits will jump.

George Villiers

#13. Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Anita Brookner

#14. It is always good for young people to be put upon exerting themselves; and you know, my dear Catherine, you always were a sad little shatter-brained creature; but now you have been forced to have your wits about you ...

Jane Austen

#15. SA's challenge is to get the democratic whole working in the way that the formerly white parts are used to. SA's threat is that the democratic whole ends up working in the way that the formerly black parts have become increasingly used to.

Denis Beckett

#16. Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me," he said, "then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.

Isaac Asimov

#17. Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If you're sleepy, go to bed and save the next chapter for tomorrow. For the magician's story, you must have all your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#18. Is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

Erica Jong

#19. Good fool, help me to some light and some paper. I tell thee, I am as well in my wits as any man in Illyria.

William Shakespeare

#20. I don't see that we have much choice," I said, "since we don't have anyone who can grow wings."
"I will push you off this mountain," Sam warned.
"All right," Blitzen decided, "let's try it. I mean the rune, not pushing Magnus off the mountain.

Rick Riordan

#21. Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Thomas J. Stanley

#22. In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much.

Hugo Weaving

#23. Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

Malcolm Cowley

#24. Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

Miguel De Cervantes

#25. Life is so precious, such a gift, you have to live for you. Live your own truth, live the life that God has put you and nobody else on this Earth to live and not what somebody might be telling you to live.

Tyler Perry

#26. Fullness to such a burden is
That go on pilgrimage;
Here little, and hereafter bliss,
Is best from age to age.

John Bunyan

#27. So you do read the papers. Usually kids your age need a bomb up their backsides, but it's good to see you've got your wits about you.

Cecelia Ahern

#28. 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

#29. To say that he is unlike Fanny is enough. It implies everything amiable. I love him already.

Jane Austen

#30. Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau