Wit Quotes - Page 6

Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.

Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine.

I am so obsessed with the cars that sometimes I feel like my heart is not a muscle, it's an engine.

I love the wheels, I mean steering wheel.

A bunch of bad songs, make an awful whine.

Benny Bellamacina

You're maybe eighteen. Your mother didn't love you enough so you decided to pierce your lip and brand your body to piss her off. You hang around this band because they make you feel like you belong. And most days you wish you were in a band of your own, but you know that probably will never happen." I met his eyes waiting.I'm twenty. my mother has an assload of tattoos herself, she thinks its art. I have a lip ring because it turns girls on when I do this." He licked his lip, lingering on the metal for a couple intense seconds. My eyes fluttered with nervousness.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

A good lover? One percent talent and ninety nine percent hard work.

Ljupka Cvetanova

Frederick's wit was impressive. When a descendant of Ghengis Khan, who was wreaking havoc in the Muslim world, wrote threateningly that the holy Roman Emperor should surrender his lands and come to his court to become one of his vassals, Frederick replied that he'd think about it and to please hold open the position of falconer.

Nancy Goldstone

Lady Placida smiled. “History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an argument could be made that you very much did earn the title.”“Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.”Lady Placida laughed. “True enough. But perhaps that is beginning to change.” She offered her hands. “It is a distinct pleasure to meet you, Steadholder.

Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.

Gordon Dahlquist

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.

Brandon Sanderson

He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife.

Ljupka Cvetanova

[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.

Christine de Pizan

Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

William Goldman

If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

William Shakespeare

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

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!

Ljupka Cvetanova

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

I wouldn't do that," Silk advised. "Thinking about it isn't going to help, and it's only going to make you nervous.""Nervouser," Garion corrected. "I'm already nervous.""Is there such a word as "'nervouser'?" Silk asked Belgarath curiously. "There is now," Belgarath replied. "Garion just invented it.""I wish I could invent a word," Silk said admiringly to Garion.

The difference ‘twixt poet and coxcomb is precisely that the latter stops gaps like a ship fitter caulking seams, merely to keep the boat afloat, while the former doth his work as doth a man with a maid: he fills the gap, but with vigor, finesse, and care; there’s beauty and delight as well as utility in his plugging

Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.

Christopher Hitchens

Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?'Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor; 'those he had picked up for himself, before he lit on Silver.'Nay,' replied the squire. 'Hands was one of mine.'I did think I could have trusted Hands,' added the captain.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.

Terry Pratchett

He lies down next to me.He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/''Well, don't die,' I say, "we just met.

Gwendoline Riley

I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Saki

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

Arthur Wellesley

Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are".

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.''Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.

Cassandra Clare

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.

Tiffany Madison

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.

Brandon Sanderson

It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords.

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.

Stéphane Mallarmé

It's time to laugh at your nightmares and have nightmares of your laughter.

Your wit never ceases to underwhelm me.

A.E. Kirk

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Terry Pratchett

Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first

What have you done to your hair?” Mom’s broken voice said, pinning me back to this tiny hospitalroom.“Holy shit!” Icka patted her head as if searching. “You think the nurse stole it? She looked shady.

Phoebe Kitanidis

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

William Shakespeare

It's time to laugh at your nightmares and have nightmares of your laughter.

Your wit never ceases to underwhelm me.

A.E. Kirk

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Terry Pratchett

Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first

What have you done to your hair?” Mom’s broken voice said, pinning me back to this tiny hospitalroom.“Holy shit!” Icka patted her head as if searching. “You think the nurse stole it? She looked shady.

Phoebe Kitanidis

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

William Shakespeare

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.""And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.

Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'dWhat oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,That gives us back the image of our mind.As shades more sweetly recommend the light,So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

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