“He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.”
Joseph Addison
“My presence of mind is frequently absent.”
Rain Bojangles
“Half wits talk much, but say little.”
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
“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought”
Pierre Bayle
“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”