Moment I stop havin fun wit it, I'll be done wit it.
Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few.
I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.
Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children.
Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [. . . ] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.
An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.
Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow?. . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it?. . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body.
Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.
Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.