| Author |
Quotes |
| Andre Maurois | To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. |
| Andreas Gryphius | It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other. |
| Andreas Gryphius | You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. |
| Benjamin Franklin | At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30, the wit; at 40, the judgment. |
| Catherine | Do sometimes sink with their own weights. |
| Christian Nestell Bovee | The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit. |
| Dorothy Parker | Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. |
| Douglas Jerrold | Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit. |
| Edward Abbey | The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. |
| Jean Paul | Brevity is the body and soul of wit. |
| John Heywood | At our wittes end. |
| Lily Tomlin | Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest -- then we can all die laughing. |
| Lou Brock | Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit. |
| Mark Van Doren | Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. |
| Nathaniel Emmons | Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. |
| Noel Coward | Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. |
| Peggy Noonan | Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. |
| Richard Baxter | An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow. |
| William Congreve | I am a fool, I know it, and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. |
| William Hazlitt | Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. |
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