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Wit Quotes by Mark Twain
- Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can…
- Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
- The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
- Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
- Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational…
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- Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than… — Joseph Addison
- Like a sprained ankle boy I aint nothin to play wit — Drake
- At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,… — John Donne
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit. — William Shakespeare