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Americans just don't understand dry wit.
John Oliver
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John Oliver
British
Comedian
Born:
Apr 23
,
1977
Topics
Wit
,
Dry
,
Understand
,
American
,
Just
Links
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare
Fool
Better
Foolish
Wit
Witty
Than
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
Corruption
Destruction
Will
Power
First
Country
Our
Consolidation
Steady
Road
Taking
Wit
Course
Pass
Then
Show
Now
Necessary
Consequence
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
Soul
Communication
Wit
Brevity
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Man
Words
Wit
His
May
Meaning
Show
Actions
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
Maya Angelou
You
Grateful
People
Intelligence
Mother
Old
Black
Rely
Had
Wit
Know
Call
Educated
Womb
Intellectual
Intelligent
Intelligent People
Mean
Really
Old People
Means
Your
Used
Right
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
Insolence
Wit
Educated
Disability is articulated as a struggle, an unnecessary burden that one must overcome to the soundtrack of a string crescendo. But disabled lives are multi-faceted - brimming with personality, pride, ambition, love, empathy, and wit.
Sinead Burke
Love
Struggle
Personality
Pride
Overcome
Burden
Ambition
String
Unnecessary
Must
Disability
Disabled
Empathy
Wit
Soundtrack
Articulated
Lives
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
Art
Vast
Wit
Narrow
Human
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Omar Khayyam
Moving On
Half
Finger
Having
Writes
Written
Thy
Wit
Piety
Line
Nor
Cancel
Moves
Moving
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
William Blake
Noise
Joy
Stream
Our
Air
Laugh
Laughing
Laughs
Runs
Voice
Merry
Wit
Hill
Does
Green
Woods
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