Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old wit quotes, wit sayings, and wit proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.William Wycherley
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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.Noel Coward
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.Madame De Stael
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.Ambrose Bierce
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Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.Walter Savage Landor
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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.Mark Twain
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.Michel de Montaigne
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Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divideJohn Dryden
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.William Hazlitt
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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.George Saintsbury
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Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.William Shakespeare
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No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.Sigmund Freud
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. William James
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.William Shakespeare
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Wit is educated insolence.Aristotle
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Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.George Eliot
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Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.J.K. Rowling
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Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. Dorothy Parker
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There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart.Charles Dickens
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Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A wit in the society of stupid people is like a damp lucifer match, the brilliant properties of which are, for the time, neutralized by the unignitable qualities of the atmosphere in which it has been misplaced.Charles William Day
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.Arthur Lynch
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A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.Peter da Silva
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The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.Carl Gustav Jung
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The well of true wit is truth itself.George Meredith
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.Francis Bacon
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Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back.Geoffrey Boca
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Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.G. K. Chesterton