Witty Sayings Quotes

• Una palabra de amabilidad rara vez se dice en vano, mientras que los dichos ingeniosos se pierden tan fácilmente como las perlas que resbalan de un cordel roto.

  George D. Prentice

  Witty, Kindness, Broken

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• A witty saying proves nothing.

  Voltaire

  Inspirador, ingenioso, humorístico

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• A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

  Voltaire

  Witty, People, Attention

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• A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

  Dave Barry

  Witty, Memories, Kids

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• Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

  James Thurber

  Witty, Stupid, Trying

  Letter to Malcolm Cowley on March 11, 1954. "Collecting Himself". Book by James Thurber, 1989.

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• Mis contribuciones fueron muchas: Primero payaso director, con dichos ingeniosos y vestidos llamativos, ahora llamado maestro de ceremonias.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Witty, Directors, Firsts

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• La vieja Madame du Deffand y sus amigas hablaron durante cincuenta años sin parar. Y de todo ello, ¿qué queda? Tal vez tres frases ingeniosas. De modo que somos libres de suponer o bien que no se dijo nada, o bien que no se dijo nada ingenioso, o bien que la fracción de tres dichos ingeniosos duró dieciocho mil doscientas cincuenta noches, lo que no deja una liberal asignación de ingenio para ninguno de ellos.

  Virginia Woolf

  Witty, Night, Years

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.495, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

  Edmund Burke

  Witty, Knowledge, Important

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