75 Quip Quotes
Following is our list of quip quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about quotes with the word quip.
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Famous Quip Quotes
A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one. — Miller Huggins
It's not about what equipment you have, it's what you do with it. — Aphex Twin
Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise. — Ingmar Bergman
A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools. — Confucius
Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life. — Steve Jobs
Play hard, play smart, play together, have fun. — Morgan Wootten
Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. — Napoleon Hill
Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand. — Elvis Presley
A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up. — Warren Spahn
It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use. — Sam Abell
Hard work, dedication! — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
To plow like a horse / to work like a horse. — Russian Proverbs
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. — Pete Rose
If you want to belong to the best, you need good technique and, perhaps even more importantly, a good eye. If you see the ball sooner, you have more time to think about how and where to return it. — Rafael Nadal
Catch fish with one hand at the same time. — Thai Proverbs
Short Quip Quotes
- When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless. — Sigmund Freud
- Supposing is good, but finding out is better. — Mark Twain
- I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. — Ronald Reagan
- Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles. — John Milton
- If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs. — Murray Gell-Mann
- I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you. — Augustus de Morgan
- Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love. — Holly Black
- The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea. — Francis Daniels Moore
- Nothing you can't spell will ever work. — Will Rogers
- COLD. Healthier than heat. — Gustave Flaubert
Q Who Quotes
I refuse to charge for my karate classes, I refuse to charge for Q&A panels, and when people come to my table, if you have money, great, but if you don't, who cares? — Jason David Frank
I think that so many actors are defined by the first thing that people see them do, and there were people who simply couldn't accept the fact that I was doing something that they perceived as being a radical departure from Avenue Q. — Stephanie D'Abruzzo
[In politics] when A goes after B and there's a C, and D and a Q all lined up there, you have no idea who's going to be the beneficiary. — Mark Shields
Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p's and q's. — Frederick Lenz
Q: What were you thinking when your colleagues were out there making cosmic history? A: I just kept reminding myself that every single component in this spacecraft was provided by the guy who submitted the cheapest tender. — Michael Collins
People Writing About Quip
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Aphex Twin |
44 | 400 |
 Ingmar Bergman |
80 | 896 |
 Confucius |
911 | 18025 |
 Steve Jobs |
587 | 14159 |
 Morgan Wootten |
13 | 62 |
 Napoleon Hill |
719 | 11159 |
More Quip Quotes
Winston Churchill once quipped, 'The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.' Trust. — William Ury
As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank. — Dean Norris
If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout. — Carl Safina
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. — Evan Esar
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth. — Ronald Reagan
After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won. — Sam Manekshaw
Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like "Be careful what you wish for," she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all. — Kristin Hannah
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. — John Milton
On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating us with machine-guns, but never mind: we'll beat them with icons. — Orlando Figes
The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument. — Adam Sandler
Everything good in there, T? Niko quipped. You need backup or anything? Bag of marshmallows to roast over that little campfire you just started? — Tina St. John
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered! — Shirley Manson
In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke. — Honore de Balzac
Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet! — Richard Hamming
God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped. "God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first. — Judith McNaught
He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart. — Earl Scruggs
People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant. — Stephen Jay Gould
Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said. — George R. R. Martin
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. — Ovid
I think actual death will be a lot easier than dying on stage. Cause - you know - if you do [actual death] right, you can go looking good. Maybe with a little quip [like]: 'I loved everybody.' But dying on stage...Oh, God! — Joan Rivers
Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males. — James Taranto
Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day. — Peter Biskind
I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax." I whirled around to find the real Patch standing in the fitting room behind me. He was wearing jeans and a snug white tee. His arms were folded loosely over his chest, and his black eyes smiled down at me. Heat that wasn't entirely uncomfortable flushed through my body. "I could make all kinds of pervert jokes right now," I quipped. — Becca Fitzpatrick
I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. — William Shakespeare
As Trevor Noah recently quipped, the US appears ready to crown its first African dictator: Donald Trump. — Andre Naffis-Sahely
She [Gypsy Rose Lee] was a sophisticated self-satirist with a contagious delight in the comedy of sex. She was coy; she was sly; she always had a witty quip; she had an intensely dramatic presence. — Karen Abbott
Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance. — Seth Klarman
Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost. — Willis Regier
For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets. — Michael Showalter
DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.' — Gustave Flaubert
One of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each other at a White House event. 'There they are,' I said. 'See no evil, hear no evil, and . . . evil.' — Bob Dole
If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos and foreign threat; and (b) gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed. — Michael Parenti
Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment. — Neel Burton
Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time." — Henry David Thoreau
Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory." — Elizabeth Taylor
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