Wise And Witty Quotes

#1. The army slew a thousand and showed little pity
The king ordered fealty from the conquered city
The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty
And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty

Shannon Hale

#2. Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.

Heinrich Heine

#3. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

#4. I can't spare this man, he fights!

Abraham Lincoln

#5. Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Alice Walker

#6. You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Frank Crane

#7. Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Thomas Hobbes

#8. No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#9. Wise are my ways witty my actions

N.A. Parnham

#10. It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies.

J.K. Rowling

#11. The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers ... folkies who took it a step further.

Chris Hillman

#12. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.

Daniel Amen

#14. He who walks with the wise will be wise, Scripture saith, and he who walks with the witty will eventually start to pop off himself.

Douglas Wilson

#15. I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary.

Amy Bloom

#16. The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.

Howard Gossage

#17. The secret of Caleb's life is found in a phrase that's repeated six times in Scripture: He wholly followed the LORD God of Israel

Warren W. Wiersbe

#18. I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.

J.K. Rowling

#19. Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

John Webster

#20. I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.

J.K. Rowling

#21. She can be pious, she can be learned, she can be witty and wise and beautiful, but if she is married to a fool she will be "that poor Mrs. Fool" until the day he dies.

Philippa Gregory

#22. Everybody ticks differently, but family is very important for me.

Curtis Joseph

#23. For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance.

Thomas Hobbes

#24. Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.

J.K. Rowling

#25. Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

Christopher Morley

#26. The only thing worth working for is love and trust, and you increase your value by being lovable and trustable.

Daniel Marques

#27. And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?

Alexander McCall Smith

#28. She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

William Shakespeare

#29. Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.

Peter Behrens

#30. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Oscar Wilde

#31. I didn't know music could make me feel good, I guess.

Kyle Parker

#32. A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge

Robert Breault

#33. Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.

Andrew Hacker