Wit Quotes

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.