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Image of Hannah Arendt
To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.
- Hannah Arendt
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Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Image of Jim Gaffigan
It's so obvious The Weather Channel is pro hurricane. Fair and balanced my ass.
- Jim Gaffigan
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Image of Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- Aristotle
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Image of Aristotle
Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.
- Aristotle
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Image of Indira Gandhi
Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say that we know what the other sex is all about, but is that really true? Perhaps the following witty, funny quotes and sayings can help simplify things down about men.
- Indira Gandhi
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Image of Catherine the Great
Your wits make others witty.
- Catherine the Great
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Image of Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Image of Hermann Hesse
Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.
- Hermann Hesse
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Image of Georgette Heyer
Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do so wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense, but it's questionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter, or recovering from flu. Its period detail is good; my husband says it's witty---and without going to these lengths, I will say that it is very good fun.
- Georgette Heyer
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Image of Christopher Hitchens
Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing remarks (which I amended when I read Anthony Powell's matter-of-fact observation that teasing is an unfailing sign of misery within) and as is my very pronounced impatience. The struggle, therefore, is to try and cultivate the virtuous side of these shortcomings: to be a genial host while only slightly whiffled, for example, or to be witty at the expense of one's own weaknesses instead of those of other people.
- Christopher Hitchens
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Image of Christopher Hitchens
Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.
- Christopher Hitchens
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Image of Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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Image of George Herbert
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.
- George Herbert
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Image of Margaret Atwood
Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
- Margaret Atwood
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Image of Bob Hope
My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one.
- Bob Hope
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Image of Ernest Hemingway
Write drunk; edit sober.
- Ernest Hemingway
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Image of George Herbert
Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
- George Herbert
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Image of Ed Helms
As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny. The joke is kind of the situation you're in, or the way you're reacting to something, as opposed to the characters just saying something witty.
- Ed Helms
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Image of Francis Bacon
Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
- Francis Bacon
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Image of Douglas Adams
Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in; fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well! It must have been made to have me in it!
- Douglas Adams
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Image of Mindy Kaling
I have a goofy side that impacts my clothing a lot. To that end, I love witty, colorful, prints.
- Mindy Kaling
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Image of Francis Bacon
Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
- Francis Bacon
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Image of Joseph Joubert
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
- Joseph Joubert
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Image of Shahrukh Khan
Yes it's going really well. We are planning on having a baby together.
- Shahrukh Khan
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Image of Shahrukh Khan
I would tell the world that Shahrukh is the better actor
- Shahrukh Khan
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Image of Angelina Jolie
And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much.
- Angelina Jolie
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Image of Shahrukh Khan
I'm not bisexual, I'm tri-sexual. I try everything
- Shahrukh Khan
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Image of Garry Kasparov
Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess.
- Garry Kasparov
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Image of Shahrukh Khan
Well Mandira, I hope not. You see, I started both their careers. And as far as i can remember, I started yours too.
- Shahrukh Khan
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Image of Douglas William Jerrold
Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
- Douglas William Jerrold
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Image of Shahrukh Khan
When will you start asking different questions? Better questions?
- Shahrukh Khan
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Image of Shahrukh Khan
If you ask that question again ma'am, I will have to ask you your age
- Shahrukh Khan
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Image of Shahrukh Khan
I don't write cheques anymore because I end up signing them "with love, shan rukh"
- Shahrukh Khan
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Image of Franklin P. Adams
When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them
- Franklin P. Adams
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Image of Georg C. Lichtenberg
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Image of Lisa Kleypas
Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening.
- Lisa Kleypas
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Image of Walter Savage Landor
Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
- Walter Savage Landor
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Image of Charles Krauthammer
History is not just cruel. It is witty.
- Charles Krauthammer
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Image of Anne Lamott
My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.
- Anne Lamott
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Image of Sophie Kinsella
Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.
- Sophie Kinsella
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Image of Chuck Klosterman
The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown.
- Chuck Klosterman
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Image of Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Image of Dave Barry
You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
- Dave Barry
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Image of Rhys Darby
Luckily the script [of X-files episode] was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.
- Rhys Darby
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Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Image of Dave Barry
What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrific-ally witty insult, the kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties.
- Dave Barry
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