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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
- Paul McCartney
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
- Lord John Russell
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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
- Pierre Bayle
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Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
- Margaret Cavendish
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I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
- Chris Cooper
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Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
- Emanuel Celler
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I love hotels. I generally prefer smaller boutique hotels to large chains, especially when attention and wit has been given to interesting design elements and beautiful bathrooms.
- Joanna Going
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
- Lucretius
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
- Madame de Stael
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Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
- Harry Hay
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His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
- Anthony Hope
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Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
- Margaret Cavendish
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Comedy comes with a bit of sarcasm, wit and edginess.
- Kiku Sharda
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Americans just don't understand dry wit.
- John Oliver
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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
- Roger Ascham
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You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
- Neil Kinnock
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Your wit makes others witty.
- Catherine the Great
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
- Richard Steele
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Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
- Colley Cibber
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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
- Sophocles
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
- Montesquieu
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
- Francis Bacon
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
- Alexander Pope
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
- Benjamin Franklin
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
- William Shakespeare
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There's many a man has more hair than wit.
- William Shakespeare
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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
- Mark Twain
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
- Mark Twain
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The more wit the less courage.
- Thomas Fuller
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Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.
- Shakuntala Devi
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
- Mark Van Doren
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Wit doesn't make girls pretty.
- Jeanne Calment
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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
- Jean de la Bruyere
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Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
- Minna Antrim
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The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
- Avicenna
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And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.
- Thomas Shadwell
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Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle
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Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
- Stan Laurel
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope
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The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
- Alexander Chase
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Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
- Philip Sidney
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
- Andre Maurois
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
- William Shakespeare
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
- William Hazlitt
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
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The well of true wit is truth itself.
- George Meredith
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
- James Boswell
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
- William Penn
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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
- Rose Kennedy
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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
- Noel Coward
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You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.
- Henny Youngman
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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
- Helen Rowland
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
- Francis Bacon
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
- Elizabeth I
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Silence is the wit of fools.
- Anatole France
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
- Alexander Pope
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
- Alexander Pope
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- William Shakespeare
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
- Alexander Pope
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