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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

Your wit makes others witty.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

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.