Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks."
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Wit
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person."
Marlon Brando
Actor, Director
"I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"There's many a man hath more hair than wit."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."
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"Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man."
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"Wit and humor belong to genius alone."
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"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit."
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"As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom."
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"Wit is well-bred insolence."
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"I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don't ever go unnoticed baby, I'm wit you, I'm wit it."
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"Puns are the droppings of soaring wits."
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"Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds."
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"Niggas wit no money act like money isn't everything."
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"Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit."
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"The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession."
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"Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits."
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"So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last."
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"Your wits make others witty."
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"To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human."
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"What is perfectly true is perfectly witty."
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"A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom."
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"He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism."
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"The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power."
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"An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness."
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