He who laughs last laughs … doesn’t get it.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

Jack shall have Jill.Nought shall go ill.

Never be less interesting than your refrigerator magnets.

Frame everything and some of it will become art.

If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion

I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words...

The creative process is a love story that never ends. The ideas are like suitors competing for your attention. You may have relationships, with multiple ideas, at once. You may devote yourself completely to one...

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

if you can’t acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don’t need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I’ll come back as catnip.

I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction.

When I’m in love, I can’t stand anyone.

Enough about my beauty,” Buttercup said. “Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I’ve got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up...

Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style.

He bantered us, challenged us, electrified us . . . At times his eloquence held us silent as images and some witty turn, some humorous phrase brought roars of applause. At times we cheered almost...

You’re maybe eighteen. Your mother didn’t love you enough so you decided to pierce your lip and brand your body to piss her off. You hang around this band because they make you feel like...

Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.

He lies down next to me.He says, ‘You know – you have a face to die for/”Well, don’t die,’ I say, “we just met.

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Give the People what they want – and they’ll get what they deserve.

Listen to me. Forget all you saw. Leave it. Take your mind from it. It has nothing to do with you. But use it for experience. Now you know what hurt it brings to women...

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch “in stitches.

Don’t let the muggles get you down.

Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar, you see, very unassuming, and order a martini. Then the...

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don’t have the wit to deal...

Great wits jump

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o’clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.

Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?

You think the nurse stole it? She looked shady.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”(Letter 16, 1657)

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can–what we...

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

The height of cleverness is in one’s ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

In retrospect, I am very nearly as sharp as I pretend to be.

Its not about winnning or losing, or how much you know before you do something.Its all about trying, how and how much have you tried is all that is important.And the day you try with...

Am I afraid of ghosts? My life experience has taught me to be much more afraid of what a human is capable of in broad daylight than what a ghost is capable of at night.

Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?-Certainly. I’d know me anywhere.

Wit and puns aren’t just decor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

So you’re a Shadowhunter,’ Nate said. ‘De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.”Was that before or after he tried to eat you?’ Will inquired.