Witty Wisdom Quotes

#1. I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

Dick Van Dyke

#2. The voice of Thich Nhat Hanh-friendly, patient, steadfast, confident, contemporary, and often witty-seems, to me, an intermediary big brother talking directly to me on every page saying, 'Look! It's right there in you,' the very wisdom that leads to compassion.

Sylvia Boorstein

#3. I used to ask myself, 'Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?' and thanks to the club, I spend it on both and am called a patron of the arts.

Melika Dannese Lux

#4. There is a thin line of difference in being courageous and foolish!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#5. You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

E.B. White

#6. Sometimes I'm having conversations with my friends, and I feel like they can't relate to me anymore. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, let me tell you about my experience on 'Fallon'!' And they'll be like, 'Oh, my God, let me tell you about my trip to the mall!' It sometimes feels lonely.

Lilly Singh

#7. Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

Margaret Atwood

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

Francis Bacon

#9. Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#10. Surely the mindset of those who think they need to win, to dominate, to punish, to reign supreme must be terrible and far from free, and giving up this unachievable pursuit would be liberatory.

Rebecca Solnit

#11. The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#12. India is my motherland.

M. F. Husain

#13. It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

Linda Ellerbee

#14. I could fall in love right now and give everything I have to you, she said, knowing that he couldn't understand her.

Paulo Coelho

#15. Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Honore De Balzac

#16. Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Albert Einstein

#17. You can label jam, you can't label man

Benny Bellamacina

#18. I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of.

Rick James

#19. Check disease in its approach.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#20. Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Ambrose Bierce

#21. I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

Arthur Eddington

#22. Politics make me sick

William Howard Taft

#23. Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

Plato

#24. There isn't a necklace, is there?'
'You'll only find out if you answer my question.'
'You're mean.'
'I'm learning to be so.' She preferred to think of it as taking more of a hand in her own destiny, but she didn't much care what anyone else might call it.

Suzanne Enoch

#25. The important thing to remember is not to forget

Benny Bellamacina

#26. Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

Julian Assange