Wit Quotes

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. William Shakespeare
Fool Better Foolish Wit Witty Than
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. Thomas Jefferson
Corruption Destruction Will Power First Country Our Consolidation Steady Road Taking Wit Course Pass Then Show Now Necessary Consequence
Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare
Soul Communication Wit Brevity
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. Benjamin Franklin
Man Words Wit His May Meaning Show Actions
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do. Maya Angelou
You Grateful People Intelligence Mother Old Black Rely Had Wit Know Call Educated Womb Intellectual Intelligent Intelligent People Mean Really Old People Means Your Used Right
Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle
Insolence Wit Educated
Disability is articulated as a struggle, an unnecessary burden that one must overcome to the soundtrack of a string crescendo. But disabled lives are multi-faceted - brimming with personality, pride, ambition, love, empathy, and wit. Sinead Burke
Love Struggle Personality Pride Overcome Burden Ambition String Unnecessary Must Disability Disabled Empathy Wit Soundtrack Articulated Lives
So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Alexander Pope
Art Vast Wit Narrow Human
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. Omar Khayyam
Moving On Half Finger Having Writes Written Thy Wit Piety Line Nor Cancel Moves Moving
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. William Blake
Noise Joy Stream Our Air Laugh Laughing Laughs Runs Voice Merry Wit Hill Does Green Woods
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. Avicenna
Religion World Men Divided Wit Who
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. Benjamin Franklin
Age Will Judgment Thirty Wit Years Forty Twenty Reigns
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. Lewis Carroll
Life Great Learning Joy Opportunities Laughter Too Harmony Our Danger Solemn Seek Spirit Thus Wit Look Exercising Mockery While Apart Them Should Full Deeper Things Kept Amusement
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. Friedrich Nietzsche
Emotion Wit Epitaph
Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it. Arthur C. Clarke
Life Best Day Hide Space Will One Day Outer Outer Space Some Proof Fact Come Perhaps Wit Well Overhear Intelligent Forever Intelligent Life Here
Wit is the lowest form of humor. Alexander Pope
Humor Wit Form Lowest Lowest Form
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. Andre Maurois
Too Much Too Enough Possess Must Having Wit Witty Much Avoid Sufficient
The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans. Robert Kennedy
Life Wisdom Learning Courage Compassion Country National Our Everything Tell Neither Worthwhile About Except Wit Devotion Makes Proud Nor America American Short Whether Which Us Product Gross Measures
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. Francis Bacon
Education Mathematics Man Study Wit Him Wandering
I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit. Alan King
Life Great Creative People Passion Men Living Too Carry Stay Something Kitchen Generally Excitement Wit Also Known Friends Artistic Anyone Speaking Who Creative People Zest Right
Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent. Antoine Rivarol
People World Society More Generally Talent Wit Witty Than Lack Speaking Who
Polish people have a wit and sarcasm. They're gentle but still very strong. Like, they love beer, which is traditionally so manly, but they'll put a spoonful of jam in it to sweeten it up. They're this wonderful mix of hard and soft. Antoni Porowski
Love Beer People Wonderful Strong Manly Put Like Wit Spoonful Gentle Polish Still Mix Up Very Jam Which Hard Sarcasm Soft
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. Florence King
Life Woman Women Destroys Must Taking Between Wit Witty Prisoners Tragic American Lovers American Life Choose Figure
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. John Oliver
Behavior Think Puns Wit Human Just Human Behavior Form Lowest Lowest Form
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation. Mark Twain
Marriage Before Relation Perceived Wit Ideas Were Any Which Union Sudden
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. Mark Van Doren
Dark Only Between Wit Wall Us
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