Wit Quotes

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

Fool, Foolish, Witty

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

Power, Corruption, Country

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

Place, Knows, Tail

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain

Marriage, Before, Union

Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare

There's many a man has more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare

Watch, Strike, Winding

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

May, Words, Show

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin

Age, Judgment, Thirty

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

Educated, Insolence

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Emotion, Epitaph

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

Leaving, American, Salt

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best, Sometimes, Against

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.
Lord Byron

Laugh, Joy, Voice

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon

Him, Study, Wandering

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Causes, Conceit

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon

Nation, Genius, Spirit

Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope

Art, Human, Narrow

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, Nor, Line

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.
Paul McCartney

Leader, Older, Definitely

Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Dangerous, Knows, Weapon

The more wit the less courage.
Thomas Fuller

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Alexander Pope

Wits, Dunce, Dunces

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope

Far, Simplicity, Above

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Lord Byron

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Alexander Pope

Child, Simplicity, Manners

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

Art, Science, Human

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