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Quotes On wit

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At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.

-Benjamin Franklin

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

-Alexander Pope

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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

-Alexander Pope

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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

-Mason Cooley

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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

-Richard Steele

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I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

-Elliott Erwitt

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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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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

-Christian Nestell Bovee

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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

-William Congreve

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The more wit the less courage.

-Thomas Fuller

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My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

-Tony Visconti

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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

-James Thurber

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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

-Lord Chesterfield

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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

-William Hazlitt

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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

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It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

-Robert Herrick

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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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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

-Alexander Pope

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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

-George Herbert

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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

-William Temple

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There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system it could be a lot of different things.

-Jensen Ackles

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Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.

-Richard Roeper

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