Quotes About Wit

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

I have an ulcer. It has an IQ of 185.

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.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Many a truth is told in jest.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

After wisdom comes wit.

Season of Miracles is a triumphant story with a heart of gold. Laced with wit and wisdom, the story had me chuckling out loud one minute and wiping away tears the next. Highly recommended!

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.