Quotes About Wit

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.

Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

find this amusing. 'Didn't you say you lived in Richmond?' 'Yeah. So what?

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

Beware of epigram! It is one of Satan's favourite disguises.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

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.

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

His wit invites you by his looks to come,But when you knock it never is at home.

See you in the funny papers.' Johnny Eager From all Johnny Eager - Private Eye books Johnny's favorite saying

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

It was a notable speech of Erasmus, if spoken in ear nest, and his wit were not too quick for his con science[47]—he said he desired wealth and honour no more than a feeble horse doth a heavy cloak-bag. And I think every Christian in his right temper would be of his mind.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

ìCommon sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.