Humor Quote by Joseph Joubert

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

— Aristotle

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

— Jane Austen

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

— William Shakespeare

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

— Benjamin Franklin

One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling…

— Jane Austen

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

— Jonathan Swift

I like my man to be witty; he needs a sense of humour and needs to be extremely well-mannered.

— Esha Gupta

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

I think I hang out with some pretty witty people, but we're never that funny.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

— Maurice Sendak