Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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• An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Would
  • Explosion
  • Wipe

• I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Up
  • Looks
  • Leader

• I bob and weave em, hit em wit that Mayweather JAB.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Wit
  • Ass
  • Badass

• ‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Danger
  • Terrorists
  • Bomb

• It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • Political
  • Environment
  • Enviroment

• The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Technology
  • Fashion
  • Passion

• Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Serious
  • Wit

• Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wit
  • Substitute
  • Quotation

• The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Human
  • Wit
  • Bauble

• Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Humor
  • Test
  • Wit

• Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Night
  • Liberty
  • Wit

• Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

  

  Sophocles
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Wit

• I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Attention
  • Special
  • Wit

• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Food
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Spirit
  • Wit
  • Malice

• Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Society
  • Wit
  • Politeness

• Politics make me sick

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Wisdom
  • Sick
  • Presidential

• Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

  

  William Kennedy
  • Soul
  • Memories
  • Creatures

• I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Imagination
  • Challenges
  • Battle

• One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Wit
  • Spoil
  • Dishes

• It's not the way it's supposed to be here, it's never been close to this since I've been here. Hopefully, once the new guys take over we can get things going and get back to where it used to be.

  

  Al MacInnis
  • Back
  • Guys
  • Take Over

• This state of independence shall be!

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Independence
  • States

• I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.

  

  William Shatner
  • Life
  • Miracle
  • Bigs

• Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Wit
  • Explosion