Boundaries Quote by Phaedrus

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

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

— Horace Mann

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

— Eugenie de Guerin

If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

— Larry Wall

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

— Alexander Pope

“A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can…

— Horace

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or,…

— Joseph Joubert

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 is well-bred insolence.

— Aristotle

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb