You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

— Neil Kinnock

Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the…

— John Dryden

“Self-pity was for children and half-wits.”

— Joe Abercrombie

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

— Benjamin Franklin

Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one must be…

— James Branch Cabell

“...with the grin of one who mistakenly thinks he's a wit when he's only half a one.”

— Terry Pratchett

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

— Anonymous

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of…

— Terry Teachout

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

— Dorothy Day

I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.

— LeBron James

Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.

— Michel Faber

If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The finest wits have their sediment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another

— Fred Trueman