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.'
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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.
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
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 moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.