Chapter WISE to WITS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

What is life when wanting love?

Burns.—Nancy, Verse 4.

WITS.—Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Dryden.—Absalom and Ahithophel, Part I. Line 163.

WITS.—I’ve search’d records, and cannot find that Magna Charta does allow a subject to live by his wits: there is no statute for it.

Sir Wm. D’ Avenant.—The Wits, Act IV. Scene 1.