Quote by Horace

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

— Alexander Pope

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

— Phaedrus

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

— Theodore Parker

“Ridicule is one of the favorite weapons of wickedness, and it is sometimes incomprehensible how good and brave boys will be influenced for evil…

— Theodore Roosevelt ridicule bullying

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

— Horace Mann

Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that…

— James E. Faust

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

— Leigh Hunt

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

“Without such rules, there are no exchanges of ideas, only exchanges of set positions and insults. People who disagree rapidly move from talking over…

— Judith Martin

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner

— Leigh Hunt

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