Best 888 quotes in «witty quotes» category

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

There's one thing that's really great about waking up early, and it's not jogging or greeting the day - it's just that that's when they make doughnuts.

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively, but nearly always sloppily or dishonestly. A specimen I've seen on more occasions than I can count is the line (usually presented with a sense of witty originality) "if you are opposed to economic rationalism, you must be in favor of economic irrationalism"... I've come to the conclusion that the word "rational" has no meaning that cannot better be conveyed by some alternative term and that the best advice is probably to avoid it altogether.

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.

Todd's mother had several children by different fathers, and Todd [Willingham] had been abandoned in California. ... He's a good-looking man. He was a witty man, you know? Funny, caring. He wasn't arrogant, but he was kind of set in his ways. If he thought something, it was one way. You could show him an alternative, but he was still going to stick by his particular view. But I could see how to women he could be a very charming, good-looking guy, especially when he was younger.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara. Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course

Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name.

We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withheld for a moment. When Mr. Lyell finds, as a witty friend lately reported that there had been found, a silver-spoon in grauwacke, or a locomotive engine in mica-schist, then, but not sooner, shall we enrol ourselves disciples of the Cyclical Theory of Geological formations.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Well do I remember the first night we met, how you questioned my opinion that first impressions are perfect. You were right to do so, of course, but even then I suspected what I've come to believe most passionately these past weeks: from that first moment, I knew you were a dangerous woman, and I was in great peril of falling in love." She thought she should say something witty here. She said, "Really?

...whatever other qualities Jews may posses, likable or the reverse, no one who knows them well can deny that they are personally interesting. By that I mean, specially alive, alert, quick at comprehending people or events and at making pungent or witty comments on them... One might at times find the rather hothouse family atmosphere, with it intensities and frictions, somewhat trying, but one could be sure of never being bored.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after-who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows.

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father ... I'm very sorry. We did everything we could ... but he pulled through.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.