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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

William Shakespeare
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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling
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You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

Neil Kinnock
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It scared us out of our wits, ... Man, we couldn't get into the car fast enough.

Simeon Wright
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

George Eliot
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I'm at my wit's end with him.

Sean Salisbury
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We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

William Stephenson
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We are at our wit's end. We are trying to hold off until we get plans in place.

Christine Brown
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I guess whatever happened, he probably got to his wit's end. Something snapped. Something caused him to do it. And we'll never know.

Jack Ferguson
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering?

Thomas Middleton
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I wanted fast race and if it wasn't fast enough I was prepared to take the lead, but as it turned out I was happy to sit behind the pace. I was on the rail and got boxed in for most of the way and keep my wits about me and wait for the time to come to get out of there.

Sarah Jamieson
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I think it's a miracle that they kept their wits about them. I'd probably be calling for my mommy.

Dr. Sheldon Teperman
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There's a lot of similarities between the two sides, so it really is going to be a battle of wills and of wits.

Robbie Deans
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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Hervey Allen
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It was a good fight, ... I (was) honored to be chosen to participate in this battle of the wits.

Aaron Sanchez
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I don't know why anybody aspires to the job. It is just a problem job, dealing with problems messy by nature, people at wit's end, crisis situations.

Tom Cole
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The case is still open, and it's basically a cold case that we continue to entertain any leads or avenues anybody comes up with. The family is at their wits end. There's been no closure for them. We're just waiting for that magic piece of evidence to help us out.

Larry Coggins Jr
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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

Louisa May Alcott
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Pen and ink is wit's plough.

John Clarke
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You cannot compile a wit out of two half-wits.

Joe Orton
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She kept her head about her, she kept her wits about her, she was observant, she paid attention, she thought on her feet as things were going along.

Rob Davis
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When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Oswald Chambers
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There's a dangerous thrill - a rush - in goodness. If you don't keep your wits about you, if you don't have a very sober take on what you're doing and who you're doing it too, you can inadvertently set little fires. The very people you are helping can wind up, emotionally, in worse shape than they were before.

Richard Price
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We're absolutely at our wits' end trying to figure out what's going on.

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

Bible
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And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Thomas Shadwell
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[One person who unexpectedly expressed nervousness about Wednesday's] table talk ... This is the first time a conversation-type format has been used. I have to keep my wits about me, and I don't want you involved. Are we okay with that?

Jim Lehrer
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We are at our wit's end and most embarrassed by this extraordinary delay on the part of the Culture Ministry in delivering on a promise to fund the event.

Patrick Arnold
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Neil Gaiman
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He asked me how many high school games I had coached. I told him it was around 780, and he said, 'I don't know if I could even watch 780 high school games.' He asked me, 'How do you keep your wits about you?' and I told him I do a lot of fishing.

Floyd Ciruti
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Good wits will jump.

George Villiers
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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Hervey Allen
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I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us.

George Lincoln Rockwell
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I got him in the office and got her on the speaker phone. I was at my wit's end with him. I was ready to send him home and said it wasn't going to work out. She was very clear - 'I am not going to let him back in the house' - and she started in on him and the kid got very emotional. I was like, 'Whoa,' .. at least she has my back.

Dave Magarity
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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Edward Dahlberg
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