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Quotes About Wit

She who laughs last laughs the laughingest.
~ Louise Rennison
She has a Billy goat brain and a mockingbird mouth!
~ Unknown
They are vulgar and dirty-minded and alien to grace, and I would not, if I could -- which I hasten to say I cannot -- cross their obscenities with a wit which is foreign to them and gild their futilities with the glamour which by birth and breeding and performance they do not possess.
~ Unknown
Once when he [Demonax, a supposed Cynic sage] came upon two uncouth philosophers inquiring and wrangling with one another--one of them putting absurd questions, the other answering perfectly irrelevantly--he said "Don't you think, my friends, that one of these guys is milking a he-goat and the other putting a sieve underneath it?
~ Unknown
He once saw two philosophers engaged in a very unedifying game of cross questions and crooked answers. 'Gentlemen,' said he, 'here is one man milking a billy-goat, and another catching the proceeds in a sieve.
~ Unknown
Humor is the last refuge of the damned.
~ Unknown
that girl has no more sense than a postage stamp.
~ John Boyne
These napkins are more holy than righteous," Mrs. Wapshot said, and most of her conversation at table was made up of just such chestnuts, saws and hoary puns.
~ John Cheever
Happy Valentine's Day to the person I've slept with most recently.
~ Unknown
Yeah, my boyfriend does this REAAAALLYY cute thing..where he doesn't exist.
~ Unknown
A good way to breakup with your girlfriend is to introduce her as your ex girlfriend at parties. It softens the blow.
~ Unknown
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap
~ Fred Allen
Real friends don't get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive.
~ Unknown
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning
~ Benjamin Franklin
Sarcasm is just one of the many services I offer to people who ask dumb questions.
~ Unknown
If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.
~ C. J. Cherryh
Wit defies deathbut death defines wit
~ Unknown
Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit, what they're interested in. That's what really shines.
~ Stephanie Seymour
There are all kinds of humor and I have largely indulged in clean comedy.
~ Kiku Sharda
Good late-night humor can work at any time of the day.
~ Rich Eisen
I really like stuff that makes people laugh.
~ Alan Tudyk
If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
~ Carl Reiner
I just like to make people laugh.
~ Andrew Dice Clay