Being Witty!
Quotations about Wit A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. ~ George Meredith Wit , like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee Wit is folly, unless a wise man has the keeping of it. ~ English proverb There are many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies. ~ American Proverb The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool. ~ Alexander Pope Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. ~ Horace Mann Great wits , like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them. ~ Jeremiah Seed The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses--not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw. ~ Henry Ward Beecher ...