Quotes of Wag - somelinesforyou

“ Just because Fate doesn't deal the right cards doesn't mean you should give up… it just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. ”

- Les Brown

“ To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering? ”

- Thomas Middleton

“ You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits. ”

- Neil Kinnock

“ He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. ”

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“ Comedians haven't improved. Nothing has improved but taxes. ”

- Will Rogers

“ They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. ”

- Bible

“ He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. ”

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“ Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them! ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly. ”

- Ian Mckellen

“ A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ All the world loves a good loser. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ All the world loves a clown. ”

- Cole Porter

“ Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff. ”

- Carl Reiner

“ You know you are really famous when becoming a comic character. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ”

- Kinky Friedman

“ In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. ”

- W.H. Auden

“ America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. ”

- Arnold J. Toynbee

“ You can buy a pretty good dog with a lot of money, but you can't buy the wag of its tail. ”

- Josh Billings

“ The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs. ”

- Hank Azaria

“ Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail. ”

- Richard Friedman

“ America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. ”

- Arnold J. Toynbee

“ Wit is educated insolence. ”

- Aristotle

“ Wit is far more often a shield than a lance. ”

- Unknown

“ At our wittes end. ”

- John Heywood

“ Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work of such sophistication, wit, and beauty that it increasingly seems to me that cartoon evolution is working backward… ”

- Bill Watterson

“ I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little …frail… ”

- Peggy Noonan
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