34 Wits Quotes for You to Enjoy

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Bertrand Russell

Waiting World Our Magical Sharper Wits Patiently Full Grow Things

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. Rudyard Kipling

You Man Son World Losing Will Others Everything Be A Man About More Blaming Wits While Your Yours Keep

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. Theodore Roosevelt

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. J. R. R. Tolkien

Strength You Heart Must Wits Been Use Therefore Chosen

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits. Wendell Berry

Death Daily Destruction Breakfast Ought Our Paper Out Scare Horrible Fact Read Without Wits Hearts Break Us Interrupting Numerical

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting. Arundhati Roy

You Fight Impossible Made Fighting Way Systems Weapons Ability Fact Wits Cunning Iraqis America Anybody Confront Your

If a natural disaster like a flock of birds or a bolt of lightning causes a plane's engines to fail, you know what should be expected? That the pilot will keep his or her wits about them and do their best to save each and every soul on board. That's precisely what Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger and the rest of his crew did. Mike Gallagher

Best You Soul Natural Pilot Will Rest Every Crew Birds About Fail Lightning Like Disaster Know Wits Causes His Expected Did Precisely Natural Disaster Board Them Plane Should Engines Captain Each Flock Keep Bolt Her Save

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. Alexander Pope

Wit Wits Dunce Dunces

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

Nature Justice Recognize Inscrutable Ardor Blind Identity Wits His Personal Personal Identity Pits Cannot Wooing Against Who Apparently Her

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits. Christopher Marlowe

Mother Veins Wits Rhyming

I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years. Dan Jenkins

Day Morning You Listening Coffee Country Philosophers Biscuits Way Paper Tell Exactly Table Window Pot Only Putting Masters Idle Wits Ham Overlooking Been Years Begin Green Eggs Authors Each Each Day Competitors

I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world. David H. Murdock

World Care Degree Top Match Wits Anybody

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. Edward Dahlberg

She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it. Elizabeth Montagu

Good Great Party Month Honour Kindly Admire Never She Concerning Sure Opinion Wits Am Same Ladies Regard Held Letter

Good wits will jump. George Villiers

Good Will Wits Jump

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

Only Wits Five Senses Middle-Aged Keeping

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. John Dos Passos

Eyes Though Advertising Wits Stimulate Dull May Movies Certainly Display

Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after. Jose Ferreira

Life Immigration Better Parents Nothing Saw Defined Kids Entire Entire Life Better Life Soon Wits Left America Moved After England Search

I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe. Keith Barry

Myself People Edge Live Back Out TV TV Show Scare Throw Envelope Pushing Over Like Safe Make Audience Cliff Wits Whether Them Then Show Pull

I think our movie, 'Now You See Me,' is an emotional movie rooted in smart and wits and fully amazing actors working perfectly together. It's like a supergroup of musicians. Louis Leterrier

Me You Musicians Together Smart Amazing Think Our See Emotional Perfectly Like Wits Movie Rooted Working Fully Now Actor

You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet. Michael East

You Think About Feet Wits Quickly Your

The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat. Philippe Petit

Overcome Impossible Our Say Rules Would Some Fearless Cheat Wits Achieved Break Cannot Use Need

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