Quotes About Wit

For all that nature by her mother witCould frame in earth.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

the only birds I can recognize without hesitation are the turkey vulture, the fried chicken, and the rosey-bottomed skinny-dipper.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

I'm an incorrigible punster. Do not incorrige me.

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."

Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit.

A pun is a short quip followed by a long groan.

A good pun is its own reword.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

I've got a great sense of humor.

I've met police dogs with more intelligence than those two. You could tell them everything we've done, down to the last word, and they'd still end up running around in a circle, sniffing each other's arses.

The comedians who I admire that are really good, they always take it to a deep psychological place.

I feel like it's my job to potentially make fun of people publicly, but I do it in a fun manner.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.

I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.

I don't write punch lines.

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

I live and die by puns.