Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
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.
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.