Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

— Denis Diderot

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

— William Penn

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it…

— William Penn

It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing…

— Indra Devi

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

— Anne Lamott

“The boat—no, it was a ship, as one of the crew had explained, since it had a solid superstructure and was stabilized by ballast,”

— Jack L. Chalker

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

— Samuel Beckett

Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him…

— Félix J. Palma

My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if…

— George Santayana

A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day.…

— Steve Fossett

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

— Maya Angelou

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

— Adolf Hitler