Down and Quote by Diana Vreeland

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not…

— Diana Vreeland

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

— James Thurber

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people…

— Robert Benton

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

— Henry Fielding

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty

— Dylan Moran

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

— Leo Rosten

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing,…

— James Thurber

There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.

— Will Ferrell

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

— Frank Muir

comedians are people who say funny things, and comics are people who say things funny.

— Staton Rabin

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

— Stan Laurel