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Letter "W" » wits
«Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!»
Author: Frances Parkinson Keyes
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertisements, claims, lay claim, medicines, pack, patent, patented, patent medicine, wits
«Good wits will jump.»
Author: George Villiers
| Keywords:
wits
«Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.»
«Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| About:
Madness,
Wit
| Keywords:
allied, bounds, divide, Great Divide, partition, partitions, wits
«But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!»
«A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits»
«Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces»
«All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.»
«Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dullness, The Fool, whetstone, wits
«For when we rage, advice is often seenBy blunting us to make our wits more keen.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
blunted, blunting, blunts, keen, rage, wits
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