Popular Quotes

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

- Margaret Thatcher

If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow.

- Saudi Arabian proverb

If you laid every economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.

- Salvadore Nasello

Irrevocable as a haircut.

- Lynwood L. Giacomini

Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.

- Thomas Fuller

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

- Alexander Chase

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

- James Thurber

Too caustic? To hell with cost; we'll make the picture anyhow. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. We have all passed a lot of water since then.

- Samuel Goldwyn

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

- Princess Anne

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike.

- Madame de Stael

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

- Aristotle

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

- Stendhal

The well of true wit is truth itself.

- George Meredith

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

- Lionel Strachey

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

- La Rochefoucauld

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

- Mark Twain

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.

- Alexander Pope

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

- Jean de la Bruyere

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

- Dorothy Parker

Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.

- Anonymous

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Brevity is the soul of wit.

- William Shakespeare

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

At their wits' end.

- Bible

Sharp wits, like sharp knives, do often cut their owner's fingers.

- Arrowsmith

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

- William Hazlitt

Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.

- Horace Mann

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

- Alexander Pope

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

- William Shakespeare