O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
Lewis J. Bates

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

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

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

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Philip Sidney

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

President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.
Elton Gallegly

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Colley Cibber

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Charles de Secondat

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
Emanuel Celler

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham

Silence is the wit of fools.
Anatole France

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

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Alexander Chase

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

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
William Temple

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge