“Vex not thou the poet's mind With thy shallow wit: Vex not thou the poet's mind; For thou canst not fathom it”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“My presence of mind is frequently absent.”
Rain Bojangles
“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 a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly”
Michel de Montaigne
“Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.”
Charles Dickens
“Great wits jump (says the Poet) and hit his Head against the Post”
Benjamin Franklin
“Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight, and converts every object into a little universe in itself.”
William Hazlitt
