Wit - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61844<![CDATA[The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61845<![CDATA[To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61841<![CDATA[Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61842<![CDATA[Brevity is the body and soul of wit. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61838<![CDATA[Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61839<![CDATA[Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61840<![CDATA[Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61835<![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30, the wit; at 40, the judgment. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61836<![CDATA[Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61837<![CDATA[Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61830<![CDATA[People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61831<![CDATA[Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61832<![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61833<![CDATA[Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61834<![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61827<![CDATA[Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest -- ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61828<![CDATA[You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61823<![CDATA[At our wittes end. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61824<![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61825<![CDATA[Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61826<![CDATA[With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61820<![CDATA[As a wit, if not first, in the very first line. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61821<![CDATA[It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other. [Ger., Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61822<![CDATA[Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61818<![CDATA[Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61819<![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61813<![CDATA[His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61814<![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61815<![CDATA[Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61816<![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61817<![CDATA[Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61810<![CDATA[Do sometimes sink with their own weights. [Lat., Votre espril en donne aux autres.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61811<![CDATA[Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61812<![CDATA[Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61808<![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it, As being loth to wear ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61809<![CDATA[Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61805<![CDATA[An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61806<![CDATA[What silly people wits are! [Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61807<![CDATA[Wit is the epitaph of an emotion ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61802<![CDATA[Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61803<![CDATA[Wit is educated insolence. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61804<![CDATA[Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61800<![CDATA[Wit is far more often a shield than a lance ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61801<![CDATA[The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59980<![CDATA[Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23062<![CDATA[Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer: Hast thou the knack? pamper it not ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20914<![CDATA[Wit is cultured insolence. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20084<![CDATA[Wit is the lowest form of humor. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19336