Each mother carries a secret in this witty book that dissects the lives of three suburban families.
The ancient sources tell us she was intelligent, witty, charming, a linguist and along with this, she had a tremendous determination.
Perhaps you are the life of the party, telling fresh and witty jokes at every turn.
) Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend .
Often seen on the doorposts of a peasant's house is the couplet, "Joyful to seeone thousand bushes of spring flowers, Beaming to drink one cup of wine of a good year," which describes well the countryside's prosperity and the peasant's joy; usually pasted on the doorposts of a barber's shop is usually the couplet, "A hair renders one younger looks, A shave makes one radiant with happiness," which reads very witty and humorous.
There is one in every office--the person who gets the attention of senior managers and interns alike at the morning meeting, who sends out witty tweets in the afternoon and who glides effortlessly through the after-work cocktail party, never at a loss for words.
In the age of the TV sitcom , witty New York repartee and the instant one-liner, Western wisdom in the modern sense can mean something more like the dialogue from an American sitcom.
A fool attempting to be witty is an object of profoundest pity.
Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Wrong, as they tend to be attracted by witty comments or clever emails, said psychologist Matthew Bambling from the Queensland University of Technology.
Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943 Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
I have made friends online – people who started out as anonymous witty sentences on a comment thread – who have gone on to become a part of my "real life".
"Witty and humorous - that is Ludvig Holberg.
" Now, this was not at all witty; but, you see, the storm had done it, and no one has any control over that.
" said some of the witty ones of the town.
" "She's quite full of 'Portulak,'" said a little common duck, who was witty.
The eel-breeder was a witty fellow, a merry guest, and brought a measure of brandy with him.
He was as good-tempered as the third, but no poet, though he could be witty.
Was not that witty?
