Download or read book Dear Wit written by H. Jack Lang and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will delight in the worldly wit, clever irony, and biting sarcasm conceived by many of the world's most renowned personalities, past and present.
Download or read book Wit s End What Wit Is How It Works and Why We Need It written by James Geary and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom." —Stephen Fry Much more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right time in the right place. In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there’s the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit of philosophers. In Wit’s End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a different style for each chapter; he writes the section on verbal repartee as a dramatic dialogue, the neuroscience of wit as a scientific paper, the spirituality of wit as a sermon, and other chapters in jive, rap, and the heroic couplets of Alexander Pope. Wit’s End agilely balances psychology, folktales, visual art, and literary history with lighthearted humor and acute insight, drawing upon traditions of wit from around the world. Entertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End demonstrates that wit and wisdom are really the same thing.
Download or read book The World s Wit and Wits written by Richard S. Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Matching Wits with the Million dollar Mind written by John Carpenter and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's hardest trvia quizzes from America's first quiz show millionaire.
Download or read book The Wil of Wit Wits Will or Wils Wit chuse you whether Containing fiue discourses the effects whereof follow etc B L written by Nicholas Breton and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wits and Beaux of Society With illustrations from drawings by H K Browne and J Godwin Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel written by Grace WHARTON (pseud. [i.e. Mrs. Katharine Thomson], and WHARTON (Philip) pseud. [i.e. J. C. Thomson.]) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wellesley Prelude written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politeuphuia Wits common wealth Newly corrected and amended The dedicatory epistle signed N L i e Nicholas Ling written by n L. and published by . This book was released on 1688 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politeuphuia Wits Common wealth written by John Bodenham and published by . This book was released on 1667 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At Our Wits End written by Edward Dutton and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are becoming less intelligent. This is the shocking yet fascinating message of At Our Wits' End. The authors take us on a journey through the growing body of evidence that we are significantly less intelligent now than we were a hundred years ago. The research proving this is, at once, profoundly thought-provoking, highly controversial, and it's currently only read by academics. But the authors are passionate that it cannot remain ensconced in the ivory tower any longer. With At Our Wits' End, they present the first ever popular scientific book on this crucially important issue. They prove that intelligence — which is strongly genetic — was increasing up until the breakthrough of the Industrial Revolution, because we were subject to the rigors of Darwinian Selection, meaning that lots of surviving children was the preserve of the cleverest. But since then, they show, intelligence has gone into rapid decline, because large families are increasingly the preserve of the least intelligent. The book explores how this change has occurred and, crucially, what its consequences will be for the future. Can we find a way of reversing the decline of our IQ? Or will we witness the collapse of civilization and the rise of a new Dark Age?
Download or read book The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare written by Mary Cowden Clarke and published by London : Bickers. This book was released on 1886 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Viva la Repartee written by Dr. Mardy Grothe and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us, that perfect retort or witty reply often escapes us when we need it most, only to come to mind with perfect clarity when it's too late to be useful. The twentieth-century writer Heywood Broun described this all-too-common phenomenon when he wrote "Repartee is what we wish we'd said." In Viva la Repartee, Dr. Mardy Grothe, author of Oxymoronica, has lovingly assembled a collection of masterfully composed -- and perfectly timed -- replies that have turned the tables on opponents and adversaries. This delightful volume is a celebration of the most impressive retorts, ripostes, rejoinders, comebacks, quips, ad-libs, bon mots, off-the-cuff comments, wisecracks, and other clever remarks ever to come out of the mouths -- and from the pens -- of people throughout history. Touching on all areas of human endeavor, including politics, the arts, literature, sports, relationships, and even the risqué, the book features contributions from Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Mae West, Groucho Marx, Winston Churchill, Dolly Parton, and scores more. As entertaining as it is intellectually enriching, Viva la Repartee is sure to capture the attention of language lovers and is the perfect antidote for anyone who's ever thought I wish I'd said that!
Download or read book Elements of Wit written by Benjamin Errett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Got wit? We’ve all been in that situation where we need to say something clever, but innocuous; smart enough to show some intelligence, without showing off; something funny, but not a joke. What we need in that moment is wit—that sparkling combination of charm, humor, confidence, and most of all, the right words at the right time. Elements of Wit is an engaging book that brings together the greatest wits of our time, and previous ones from Oscar Wilde to Nora Ephron, Winston Churchill to Christopher Hitchens, Mae West to Louis CK, and many in between. With chapters covering the essential ingredients of wit, this primer sheds light on how anyone—introverts, extroverts, wallflowers, and bon vivants—can find the right zinger, quip, parry, or retort…or at least be a little bit more interesting.
Download or read book Wits Common wealth Or A Treasury of Divine Moral Historical and Political Admonitions Similies and Sentences written by John Bodenham and published by . This book was released on 1722 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book Auction Records written by Frand Karslake and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
Download or read book Dear Wit written by H. Jack Lang and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At Wit s End written by Erma Bombeck and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire." THE BOSTON GLOBE Madcap, bittersweet humor in classic Erma Bombeck-style. You'll laugh until it hurts and love it! "Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet, he's treading water. What do you mean you're a participle in the school play and you need a costume? Those rotten kids. If only they'd let me wake up in my own way. Why do they have to line up along my bed and stare at me like Moby Dick just washed up onto a beach somewhere?"
