Something Witty

A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire

I thought Europe was a country. - Kellie Pickler

Wit is the lowest form of humor. - Alexander Pope

Scholarly Debate: Feud for thought - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

An old man in a house is a good sign. - Benjamin Franklin

The well of true wit is truth itself. - George Meredith

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich. - William M Thackeray

Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous. - Confucius

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost. - Confucius

All that we are is the result of all that we have thought. - Buddha

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is first thought. - Emily Dickinson

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. - Doug Larson

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. - C.E. Cowman

We're all just ghosts on a wire seeking the prick of an electric thought. - Robert Fanney

I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi. - Sara Sheridan

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!' - Dolly Parton

If you want to build a happy life, you have to give careful thought to the foundations. - Unknown

The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material. - Robin Williams

Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted. - Lawrence Summers

Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongue. - Old Testament

Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem. - Stephen Covey

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes

If the sign on your heart says, "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere. - Susan Jeffers

Take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety. - Dale Carnegie

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. - Robert Brault

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

I could dance with you till the cows come home...
on second thought, I'll dance with the cows till you come home. - Groucho Marx

Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. - C S Lewis

The shining example of philanthropy is often tarnished when thought is given to how the philanthropist got it in the first place. - Unknown

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - Bertrand Russell

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: 'If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?' - Mark Zuckerberg

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of a soft drink. - Joe DiMaggio

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? - George Carlin

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. - Spencer Silver