Quotes and Sayings About Witty
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
-- A. J. Liebling -
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-- Aesop -
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
-- Al Gore -
We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?
-- Alain de Botton -
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
-- Alan King -
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
-- Albert Camus -
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein -
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein -
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
-- Albert Einstein -
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
-- Albert Einstein -
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
-- Albert Einstein -
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein -
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley -
One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.
-- Alessandra Stanley -
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
-- Alexander Pope -
What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.
-- Alistair Begg -
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
-- Andre Maurois -
Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.
-- Andrew Hacker -
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
-- Andrew Marvell -
It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.
-- Andy Borowitz -
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
-- Andy Rooney