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Wit is educated insolence.

An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.

What silly people wits are!

Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty.

We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it, As being loth to wear it out, And therefore bore it not about; Unless on holy days or so, As men their best apparel do.

Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights.

Do sometimes sink with their own weights.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.

Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.

As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.

It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other.

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.