Wit Quotes - Page 10

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?