#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

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth. ↗

— Bono

#cursed #digging #drilling #get #happy

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean. ↗

— Alton Brown

#battles #cause #dirty #dish #fast

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. ↗

— John Dryden

#bounds #divide #great #madness #near