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Wit Quotes by William Cowper
- His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
- The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a…
- Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit
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
- The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you… — Geraldine Brooks
- I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems… — Alton Brown
- I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other… — Carrie Brownstein
- It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. — Jean de la Bruyere