Wit Quotes

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.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.