“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
“Why put fears in people's hearts? Go home!”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.”
William Hazlitt
“Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”
G. K. Chesterton
“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
“Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.”
Maya Angelou
“Great wits jump (says the Poet) and hit his Head against the Post”
Benjamin Franklin
