| |  | | | | | | | | | | | Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty | | Joseph Addison | | | Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide | | John Dryden | | | | | I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min | | Samuel Johnson | | | Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them | | Charles Caleb Colton | | | Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre | | Samuel Johnson | | | No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit." | | Sigmund Freud | | | | | Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly | | Michel de Montaigne | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. | | Mark Twain | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 16 of 16 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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