#wits

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#child #dealing #floor #keep #sit

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. ↗

— Ben Okri

#friends #happy #homeless #i #lived

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player. ↗

— Tim Page

#against #being #biggest #challenge #exciting

You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet. ↗

— Michael East

#feet #quickly #think #wits #you

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#five #fully #keeping #live #middle-aged

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#clever man #commit #crime #ever #half-wits

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#full #grow #magical #our #patiently

Good wits will jump. ↗

— George Villiers

#jump #will #wits

Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#wits #inspirational

What are wits for unless a man uses them? ↗

— Ellis Peters

#thinking #wits #intelligence