Good Wits Quotes

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

Miguel De Cervantes

#2. Good wits will jump.

George Villiers

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Jane Austen

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

John Bunyan

#8. 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

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

Malcolm Cowley

#10. 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

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

Thomas J. Stanley

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Erica Jong

#15. 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

#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. 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

#18. 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

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

Anita Brookner

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Jacques Chirac

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

George R R Martin

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

Plato

#30. 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