“Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.”
Maya Angelou
“As a second generation Irish man I am constantly searching for the Ireland of my childhood. A simpler, happier place like in the film 'The Quiet Man'; but I'm afraid it's gone forever.”
Richard 'Grimesy' Grimes
“Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”
G. K. Chesterton
“At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues”
Jean de la Bruyere
“Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.”
Lord Chesterfield
“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.”
William Congreve
