Quotes About Wit

And most important to her, he possessed a great sense of humor,

Reed shook his head. "Pretty damned clever," he added, unable to keep admiration from his tone.

Careful, Edmund," I said. "She eats guys for breakfast." "Should I pour milk on meself?" Edmund asked me, and grinned.

The sharp employ the sharp.

One time G.K. Chesterton, the rolypologist, was patted on the stomach by his adversary, George Bernard Shaw, a beanpole of an infidel, and was asked what they were going to name the baby. Chesterton replied immediately that if it was a boy, John, if a girl, then Mary. But if it turned out to only be gas, they were going to name it George Bernard Shaw.

Oh you wanna be a muhfuckin funny guy? Dont make me break your Kevin Hart boy.

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

I would recommend it to you to reflect, and remark on, and digest what you read; to enter into the spirit and design of your author; to observe every step he takes to accomplish his end; and to dwell on any remarkable beauties of diction, justness or sublimity of sentiment, or masterly strokes of true wit which may occur in the course of your reading.

My husband taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"

Something horrible happens and I try to make it funny. It's really a tortured life. You go to a salsa bar, at your local burrito stand, and you know, you think "how can you make a joke about this?"

I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

I never stole a joke in my life. I just find them before they're lost.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

Two of my fav pieces of wisdom from Phoebe: - Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible. - Remember, it's always better to be the smartass rather than the dumbass.

Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

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