#wits

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#keeping #middle-aged #only #senses #their

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#certain things #his #lose #over #things

She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it. ↗

— Elizabeth Montagu

#am #assemblies #concerning #good #great

No I don't miss fighting, I still got my wits about me and there are a lot of people who do it and get beat up, and I don't want to be one of them, I have children to raise. ↗

— Michael Moorer

#beat #children #fighting #get #got

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

— Eden Phillpotts

#grow #magical #our #patiently #sharper

Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this. ↗

— Sam Starbuck

#boxing-matches #gambloes #life #moments #morningside