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There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Wit is educated insolence.

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.