Awareness Quote by George Will

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

— John Zorn

“Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humour is the oil and…

— Washington Irving

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.

— Taki Theodoracopulos

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

— Krister Stendahl

“I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.”

— David Foster Wallace

“...element of comedy is never completely eliminated from irony. But irony is something more than comedy. A comic situation is proved to be an…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point…

— James Thurber

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

— Manuel Puig