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

The more wit the less courage.
Thomas Fuller

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

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Edward Fitzgerald

The play of limbs succeeds the play of wit.
James Smith

The well of true wit is truth itself.
George Meredith

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

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.
James Thurber

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

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

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.
Jensen Ackles

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Stephen Leacock

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

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Pierre Bayle

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

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
Thomas Willis

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Andre Maurois

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
William Congreve

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
Mary Astell