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Wit is educated insolence.

Wit is educated insolence.

Quote by Aristotel about intelligence

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and...

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Quote by Dorothy Parker about wisdom, hell, word, truth

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, soul

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Quote by Francis Bacon about mathematics, man

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are...

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Quote by Francis Bacon about genius, nation, spirit

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had...

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

Quote by George Gordon Byron about end

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.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about air, joy, voice

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Quote by William Penn about judgment

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the...

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Quote by Antoine de Rivarol about opinion, talent, society, world, people

To be witty is not enough. One must possesses sufficient...

To be witty is not enough. One must possesses sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Quote by André Maurois about humor

Young people are the ones who make history and only the...

Young people are the ones who make history and only the elders tell it, with more or less talent or wit.

Quote by Mihai Dinu Gheorghiu about history, talent, people

Women's wit is always more seductive than the body from...

Women's wit is always more seductive than the body from which she looks at you.

Quote by Marius Torok about intelligence, body, contentment

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