THE MESSAGE:
Who was it that first said "She has her wits about her."? Uncle Joe used to say, "lei ha il suo ingegno....." when referring to my mother.
One of my English teachers at De La Salle, Brother Matthew, often declared, "I am at my wit's end"; I received a knuckle on top the head for piping up. "You got that right!
COMMENTS ON WIT
ARISTOTLE
Wit is, “Well-bred insolence”
SHAKESPEARE
“Brevity is the soul of wit”
JOSEPH ADDISON
“He thought he was a wit; he was half right.”
MILTON BERLE
" Want to match wits with me? I’ll check my brain and we’ll start even."
J.K. ROWLING
"Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure."
DOROTHY PARKER
"There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words."
G.K. CHESTERTON
"Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it."
ALEXANDER POPE
"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."
WILLIAM HAZLITT,
"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."
SAMUEL JACKSON
"He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
“I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer” -DOUGLAS ADAMS
“This is not a novel to be tossed
aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." - DOROTHY PARKER
“The covers of this book are too
far apart.” -AMBROSE BIERCE
“Tact: the ability to describe others
as they see themselves.”-ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
I started out with nothing...I still have most of it.
Some days you're the dog, some days the hydrant.
Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.
If all is not lost, where is it?
It was all so different before everything changed.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
I wish the buck stopped here. I could use a few.
Some days you're the dog, some days the hydrant.
Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.
If all is not lost, where is it?
It was all so different before everything changed.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
I wish the buck stopped here. I could use a few.
The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom.
THE QUESTION:
What's the difference between 'fat chance' and 'slim chance'?
THE QUOTE:
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." - William Shakespeare
LEMONS TO:
BARAK OBAMA, for his cutesy rhetoric, triumphant grimace, oral melody, and unfulfilled expectations.
THE CLIP:
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