The more wit the less courage.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

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

Silence is the wit of fools.

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.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

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

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

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.

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

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.