Ballast Quote by William Penn

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

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the…

— George Orwell

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

— William Shenstone

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

— Alexander Pope

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

— Dorothy Parker

Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“It is better to be ship with sail than adrifting log”

— Atul Gandotra

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

— John Dryden

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ Survey the whole nor seek slight faults…

— Alexander Pope

Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in a lively…

— Jeremiah Seed