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It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords. — Dean F. Wilson

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

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. — Ben Okri

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

Because the vast majority of the world is made up of half-wits, the President asked Mike to come onboard and dumb everything down for them. — Dan Brown

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 bud
The 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

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

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. — Alcaeus

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

Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them. — Michel Faber

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

Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her. — Sarah Ferguson

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

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

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. — George Eliot

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

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you. — Dorothy Day

Wine ... moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart. — Andrew Boorde

Esmeralda, don't blame your brother for his girlfriend's lack of wits, Sam admonished. — L.D. Davis

The finest wits have their sediment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not so old that I've lost my wits, you piece of fox dung! Tallstar snarled. — Erin Hunter

This girl wasn't like wildfire - she was wildfire . Deadly and uncontrollable. And slightly out of her wits. — Sarah J. Maas

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.) — Ovid

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

Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. — John Dryden

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

Do you need anything before I go?
I want you to return my wits, I long to say. — R.L. LaFevers

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 you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again. — Aristophanes

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

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. — Hervey Allen

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

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell? — Adrienne Rich

My fault that we were terrified half out of our wits. — Sue Reid

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

Rappers are in danger
Who will use wits to be a remainder? — O.C.

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

Who travels widely needs his wits about him. The stupid should stay at home. And — Eric Weiner

That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another — Fred Trueman

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile — Homer

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

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

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

When an answer finally comes to me, I know I've completely lost all my wits - or as my mama used to tell my father, I have a few screws loose. — Brandy Nacole

Better than cancer or Alzheimer's, that prime horror of anyone who has spent his life making a living by his wits. — Stephen King