Wit Quotes
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building: It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.
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Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
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The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.
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Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
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I'm the best now Anybody wit some money should invest now
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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
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As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
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Too much wit makes the world rotten.
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Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
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Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.
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Those who object to wit are envious of it.
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
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The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
