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Wit Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
- Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
- VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
- 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…
- 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…
More Wit Quotes
- Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen
- The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. — Avicenna
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce
- Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting… — Unknown Author
- Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee