Many live by their wits but few by their wit.
Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children.
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Getting something and having the wits to use it. . . those are two different things.
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.
I don't go to church all that regularly, and one reason I don't is very often when I go I am bored out of my wits. I find myself being addressed by preachers who, I assume, were led by some initial passion for Christ, for the truth, for God, for "the More. " That's what got them there. But that has gotten buried under all the debris of having to run a church, of concerns.
The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.
Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.
My wits begin to turn.
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
You must have your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.
City wits, country humorists.
So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)