Wit Quotes - Page 6

Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve.

A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction.

Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems.

Its not about winnning or losing, or how much you know before you do something.
Its all about trying, how and how much have you tried is all that is important.
And the day you try with all your might, courage and wit (doing the right thing at the right time), victory shall surely be yours and yours alone.

The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

He had a reputation in society as a man with a lively wit, whose gaiety was pleasant and formidable – which all gaiety must be in a society which would despise you if, while amusing it, you did not make it tremble a little. ("A Woman's Vengeance")

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.

Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.

Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can-what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said.

China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.