Quotes About Wit

Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them.

He that would pun would pick a pocket.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

Epigram: a wisecrack that has played Carnegie Hall.

For birth control I rely on my personality.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

When asked how long I've worked here, I replied, "since the day they threatened to fire me."

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way.