#wits

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

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#breakfast #daily #death #destruction #fact