Quotes
Quotes about Wit
Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.
I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.
Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
You are come off now with a whole skin.
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil.
After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.
Within a stone's throw of it.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?
Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.
When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with with us.
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.
The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.
I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.
We read of a certain Roman emperor who built a magnificent palace. In digging the foundation, the workmen discovered a golden sarcophagus ornamented with three circlets, on which were inscribed, "I have expended; I have given; I have kept; I have possessed; I do possess; I have lost; I am punished. What I formerly expended, I have; what I gave away, I have."
