Calisthenics Quote by Dorothy Parker

“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

— Dorothy Parker

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

— Samuel Johnson

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question,…

— Arthur Lynch

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

— Anonymous

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it…

— William Penn

Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back.

— Geoffrey Bocca

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

— Anonymous