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There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
— Austin O'Malley
As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.
— David Eddings
God,' he thought, 'never let me outlive my wits.
— Patrick O'Brian
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
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Eden Phillpotts
Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.
— Jeaniene Frost
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
— Charles Brenton Huggins
Some days are so difficult that if we didn't let wine steal our wits, how would we sleep?
— Dean Koontz
I only need half my wits to be a match for you.
— George R R Martin
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.
— John Gay
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
— Voltaire
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
— Alexander Pope
Yet writers say, as in the sweetest budThe eating canter dwells, so eating love
Inhabits in the finest wits of all. — William Shakespeare
I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves
— P.G. Wodehouse
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
— Jonathan Swift
O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.
— Gaspara Stampa
Satan with all his wits and wiles, shall never vanquish a soul armed with true grace; nay, he that hath this armour of God on shall vanquish him. Look
— William Gurnall
The little shards of sleep that they allowed her turned into razors, slicing at her wits.
— George R R Martin
She has the blood of a wolf," said Joffrey. "And you have the wits of a goose," said Tyrion.
— George R R Martin
I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me.
— Richard Branson
Good wits will jump.
— George Villiers
Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
— Christopher Marlowe
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
— John Dos Passos
and cooled my head, my wits slowly returned.
— J.C. Reed
Men are by wits not by dicks
— Himmilicious
My wits supply, sir, what my sword cannot always command.
— Emmuska Orczy
When my wits fail me, I resort to self-deception.
— Dean Koontz
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.
— Winston Churchill
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
— William Shakespeare
With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes one of the tragedies of married life. — Virginia Woolf
Subtle wits like to refresh themselves with a whiff of mild indecency.
— Robertson Davies
With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off his [war] pension and his wits, both hopelessly inadequate.
— Spike Milligan
So many heads so many wits.
— John Heywood
Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
— Storm Jameson
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
I declare! Sometimes it seems to me that every time a new piece of machinery comes into the door some of our wits fly out the window!
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
— Oswald Chambers
For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
— Herodotus
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.
— Pierre Charron
I have taken to living by my wits.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
— Mark Twain
He sat beside me pleasantly and played his sweet music to me, and in the end he foretold things that put drunkenness on my wits.
— Lady Augusta Gregory
Wine ... moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.
— Andrew Boorde
The finest wits have their sediment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
This girl wasn't like wildfire - she was wildfire . Deadly and uncontrollable. And slightly out of her wits.
— Sarah J. Maas
I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.
— David H. Murdock
Many live by their wits but few by their wit.
— Laurence J. Peter
So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.
— Ethel Kennedy
When you are facing superior strength, you must use your wits.
— Terry Goodkind
Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children.
— Timothy Dwight V
What are wits for unless a man uses them?
— Ellis Peters
I hope his sword is quicker than his wits. The day may come that Tommen has some need of it.
— George R R Martin
If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.
— Frances Hardinge
The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.
— Louisa May Alcott
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
— Jacques Barzun
I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.
— LeBron James
Muster your wits: stand in your own defense.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.
— Jeremiah Seed
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
— George D. Prentice
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
— William Shakespeare
Junior writers $300; Minor poets - $500 a week; Broken novelists - $850-1000; One play dramatists - $1500; Sucks - $2000. Wits - $2500.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
— William Shakespeare
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Your wits make others witty.
— Catherine The Great
Jon lowered his sword. "Go," he muttered.Ygritte stared.
"Now," he said, "before my wits return. Go."
She went. — George R R Martin
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
A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.
— Mike Tyson
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!
— Frances Parkinson Keyes
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
— Benjamin Haydon
His wits have gone dark as his eyes
— George R R Martin
Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.
— Stephen King
When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
— Francis Bacon
