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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fd9e77a | Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. | Wishes | ||
| 125f327 | What most we wish, with ease we fancy near. | Wishes | ||
| 4c0902e | Wishing, of all employments is the worst. | Wishes | ||
| 4bdb59b | What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows,Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. | Wishes | ||
| 519a0ee | And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. | Wishes | ||
| f9f0e28 | With all thy sober charms possest,Whose wishes never learnt to stray. | Wishes | ||
| f109ab9 | I wish I knew the good of wishing. | Wishes | ||
| 1991ec4 | Wishers and woulders be small householders. | Wishes | ||
| f17b03e | Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| b71ff98 | There's nothing more debauched than thinking. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 2f973db | Aristotle said * * * melancholy men of all others are most witty. | Wit | ||
| a0c98dd | Great wits and valours, like great states,Do sometimes sink with their own weights. | Wit | ||
| 6a51172 | His wit invites you by his looks to come,But when you knock, it never is at home. | Wit | ||
| bd7a0cf | Wit: a form of sex display. | Wit | ||
| 89ffdd0 | For wit and judgment often are at strife,Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. | Wit | ||
| b28f288 | How the wit brightens! how the style refines! | Wit | ||
| 418468b | Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. | Words | ||
| 27f0299 | If faith itself has different dresses worn,What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? | Wit | ||
| 5bd0b8d | You have a nimble wit; I think it was made of Atalanta's heels. | Wit | ||
| ed8382c | They have a plentiful lack of wit. | Wit | ||
| 32b9205 | Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire. | Wit | ||
| f6f60b1 | Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them;But, in the less, foul profanation. | Wit | ||
| e7a9f46 | He doth, indeed, show some sparks that are like wit. | Wit | ||
| b24a4e8 | A good old man, sir: he will be talking, as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out. | Wit | ||
| 56e140b | Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. | Wit | ||
| 0784dd8 | Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth; it catches. | Wit | ||
| 8a08562 | To leave this keen encounter of our wits,And fall somewhat into a slower method. | Wit | ||
| 7044574 | Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting: it is most sharp sauce. | Wit | ||
| e1dc990 | Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. | Wit | ||
| 4880ab6 | An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow. | Wit | ||
| 7a399d5 | Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. | Wit | ||
| 3f9a387 | I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. | Wit | ||
| e1c9823 | Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark. | Wit | ||
| 10902bc | Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long. | Wit | ||
| d9fd1e5 | At our wittes end. | Wit | ||
| 90d3fd9 | Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. | Wit | ||
| 1d66fc0 | A man does not please long when he has only one species of wit. | Wit | ||
| ff94056 | Mother Wit. (Nature's mother wit). | Wit | ||
| e58f8cf | Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering? | Wit | ||
| 3c7d966 | Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright,Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. | Wit | ||
| ec1ed8a | You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. | Wit | ||
| a8c2a62 | Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state. | Wit | ||
| 4f6d746 | Too much wit makes the world rotten. | Wit | ||
| fa13afc | And wit its honey lent, without the sting. | Wit |