Beam Quote by Edward Young

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 must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

— William Congreve

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

— Anonymous

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense;…

— Alexander Pope

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

— Douglas Hofstadter

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

— William Penn

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

— Sir John Davies

A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new…

— Horace Walpole

Wit is the flower of the imagination.

— Livy

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which…

— Aristotle

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge