Quotes on Witty

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.