Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that - they must go on, by the rapidest of transitions, to being something else. Groucho, in my opinion the bright star among the three, is never anything but the thing he is at the moment pretending to be.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

Your wit makes others witty.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

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

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

The more wit the less courage.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Wit is educated insolence.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.