Wit Quotes

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Friendship is a marriage wit out sex! — Sanjaya
Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness,… — Sydney Smith
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read… — Ambrose Bierce
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this… — Ambrose Bierce
Humor is wit and love. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than… — William Temple
Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike — Madame De Stael
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of… — Galileo Galilei
This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use… — Francis Bacon Sr
There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being… — Hannah Moore
The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable. — Red Auerbach
Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play. It measures neither the… — Robert Francis Kennedy
Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth,… — Diane LaVey
Let the master praise him, and say, Here ye do well. For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit,… — Roger Ascham
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement. — Benjamin Franklin
. . . Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead. Ghosts all! The ghost of beauty, the ghost of stateliness, the… — Charles Dicken
Its only lyf dat cn help me wit my process — Mustapher Shabil
Problems are nothing but emergency calls for wit and ceativity — Anat E'Pathinder
If you have more bad times then good times wit yo nikka then he aint the one fo yu strait up dnt ever stress yo… — Dat Bish
Open ya book, chapter begin all black k, mac wit a fin, shit go blat get back its a wrap fall back homeboy take dat… — Reed

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