Top 100 Quotes About Wits
#1. I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.
Jack Johnson
#2. He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
George D. Prentice
#3. Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.
Stephen Fry
#4. Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
Plato
#5. Honestly, I'm just so fed up with you. I'm at my wits' end.'
Since my mother is always at her wits' end, I'm surprised she had any wits left.
Han Nolan
#6. It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords.
Dean F. Wilson
#7. Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after.
Jose Ferreira
#8. When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance ... that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#9. His wits were coming back to him, however slowly. That was good. His wits were all he had.
George R R Martin
#10. Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
Victor Hugo
#11. The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.
Arundhati Roy
#12. Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
Ben Jonson
#13. (R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.
Terry Teachout
#14. Music gives inspiration ... one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover some witty ideas.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#15. The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization.
Tina Brown
#16. The weight of appreciation and the threat, which was never spoken, of a return to Momma were burdens that clogged my childish wits into impassivity.
Maya Angelou
#17. I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.
David H. Murdock
#18. The key, I suppose, to understanding the heart of a Bennet appears to be that one must catch them when they are out of their wits." Bingley said with a laugh.
Diana J. Oaks
#19. What the deuse do we men go to school for? If our wits were equal to women's, we might spare much time and pains in our education: for nature teaches your sex, what, in a long course of labour and study, ours can hardly attain to.
Samuel Richardson
#20. Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought,
Charles Dickens
#22. Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#23. That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another
Fred Trueman
#24. Well, I got to admit I still like a fight," Augustus said. "They sharpen the wits. The only other thing that does that is talking to women, which is usually more dangerous.
Larry McMurtry
#25. This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.
Samuel Johnson
#26. Jon lowered his sword. "Go," he muttered.
Ygritte stared.
"Now," he said, "before my wits return. Go."
She went.
George R R Martin
#28. Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.
Lewis Thomas
#29. I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me.
Richard Branson
#30. I'm not so old that I've lost my wits, you piece of fox dung! Tallstar snarled.
Erin Hunter
#31. The exaggerated dramatic force employed by Umfraville in presenting his narrative made it hard to know what demeanour best to adopt in listening to the story. Tragedy might at any moment give way to farce, so that the listener had always to keep his wits about him.
Anthony Powell
#32. 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
#33. People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success
that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
Christy Carlson Romano
#34. You know the difference between Hell's fury and a scorned woman? If you keep your wits about you, you might have a chance of surviving Hell in one piece.
Joshua Bader
#35. There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.
Charles Caleb Colton
#36. I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.
Maria Thayer
#37. Lea, you know you should never have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
Christine Zolendz
#38. I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.
Audrey Hepburn
#39. I considered organizing a game of wits - " "Admitting defeat already, are you? Since you're unarmed?
Vivian Arend
#40. Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden
#41. In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.
Dorothea Brande
#42. A man needed all of his wits dealing with a woman. Too often even that was not enough;
Robert Jordan
#43. BARABAS: A reaching thought will search his deepest wits,
And cast with cunning for the time to come;
For evils are apt to happen every day.
Christopher Marlowe
#44. You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?
D.H. Lawrence
#45. be creative, adapt quickly, and rely on your wits instead of automated tools.
David Kennedy
#46. The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbear,
And ev'n the rigid feature:
Yet ne'er with wits profane to range
Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange
For deity offended.
Robert Burns
#47. I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
Ray Bradbury
#48. No I don't miss fighting, I still got my wits about me and there are a lot of people who do it and get beat up, and I don't want to be one of them, I have children to raise.
Michael Moorer
#49. 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
#50. Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.
Leo Tolstoy
#51. I think our movie, 'Now You See Me,' is an emotional movie rooted in smart and wits and fully amazing actors working perfectly together. It's like a supergroup of musicians.
Louis Leterrier
#52. Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this.
Sam Starbuck
#53. my mother's wits were now in an attic of her head which had neither door nor stair, or at least none that I could find.
Sebastian Barry
#54. Realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention.
Walter Kirn
#56. With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes
one of the tragedies of married life.
Virginia Woolf
#57. And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.
C.S. Lewis
#59. Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.
Neil Kinnock
#60. It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.
Jonathan Swift
#61. The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.
Louisa May Alcott
#62. Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
Bono
#63. As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#64. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Hervey Allen
#65. If you have ever come up against Nothing you have no idea how it can scare you out of your wits. When I was a child I used to be afraid of Something in the dark. I know now that the most fearful thing about the dark is that we may find Nothing in it.
Howard Spring
#66. When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?
Karl Barth
#67. Only in rare instances and with rare individuals does there seem to be any guiding light from within.
Theodore Dreiser
#68. Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.
John Gay
#69. Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?"
Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art."
Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.
William Shakespeare
#70. Now, Betteredge, exert those sharp wits of yours, and observe the conclusion to which the Colonel's instructions point!" I instantly exerted my wits. They were of the slovenly English sort; and they consequently muddled it all
Wilkie Collins
#71. Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.
David Suzuki
#72. He'd missed matching wits with her. "Shall we duel with our lips?"
"You may find yourself eating grass for breakfast.
Vicky Dreiling
#73. You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.
Anna Quindlen
#74. When I battle wits with Jarod Kintz I always feel like I need to take my brain out to give him a transplant. Bad part is we don't have any.
Will Advise
#77. Do you need anything before I go?
I want you to return my wits, I long to say.
R.L. LaFevers
#78. Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
Douglas William Jerrold
#79. It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.' ... It is like a passing fool in a crowd of the University, a buffoon in the hall; for all the things in Paris has made, it alone has neither wits nor soul.
Hilaire Belloc
#80. And then he only had eyes for the pie. Watch any man, he could be ninety years old and drooling spit, but at the sight of homemade pie every last one of his wits will spring to attention.
Elizabeth Hay
#81. Your wife has deserted you, but you'll find a new one; whereas, soon my wits will desert me, and for this there is no remedy.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. 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
#83. Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.
Jack Vance
#84. I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes alot of training.
Elaine Dundy
#85. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.
Ray Bradbury
#86. Philosophy is odious and obscure;
Both law and physic are for petty wits;
Divinity is basest of the three,
Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile.
'Tis magic, magic that hath ravished me.
Christopher Marlowe
#87. She knew better than to lose her head over a man. That was what was so humiliating: she knew better. Three broken engagements had taught her that a woman needed to keep her wits about her when dealing with the male species, or she could get seriously hurt.
Linda Howard
#88. Don't underestimate the poor, because his soul treasures to Phoenix of Wits
Miguel El Portugues
#89. He had to remember that. I must not let him drive me mad. He can take my fingers and my toes, he can put out my eyes and slice my ears off, but he cannot take my wits unless I let him.
George R R Martin
#90. Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.
Mary Jane Ward
#91. It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.
Yehudi Menuhin
#92. Too much cleverness can be a torment to a man, setting his wits against his faith.
Mark Lawrence
#93. The punishing of wits enhances their authority.
Francis Bacon
#94. TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom ...
Ranu Das
#95. I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
Ben Okri
#96. If your clients know that you care about them, that's half the battle. Emotional support in itself can do wonders. After that you rely on your training and your wits.
A.S.A Harrison
#97. Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Never fight a battle of wits when iocane powder is involved. And never, never, never, never, never, never, never let the New Republic's editors choose the headline for your article.
Brad De Long
#98. Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
Maria Edgeworth
#99. My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands.
Lloyd Alexander
