| "WIT makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good WIT." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The real WIT tells jokes to make others feel superior, while the half-WIT tells them to make others feel small." »Elmer Wheeler |
| "It has always been the prerogative of children and half-WITs to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-WIT remains a half-WIT, and the emperor remains an emperor." »Neil Gaiman |
| "Don't set your WIT against a child." »Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett |
| "Conceit causes more conversation than WIT." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "WIT is educated insolence." »Aristotle |
| "A proverb is the wisdom of many and the WIT of one." »Lord John Russell |
| "Brevity is the soul of WIT." »William Shakespeare |
| "He is winding the watch of his WIT by and by it will strike." »William Shakespeare |
| "The younger brother hath the more WIT." »John Ray |
| "WIT is the lowest form of humor." »Alexander Pope |
| "WIT makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "If a man's WIT be wandering, let him study the mathematics." »Francis Bacon |
| "Ahhh. A man WITh a sharp WIT. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself." »Peter da Silva |
| "The next best thing to being WITty one's self, is to be able to quote another's WIT." »Christian Nestell Bovee |
| "Don't put too fine a point to your WIT for fear it should get blunted." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for WIT." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and WIT its soul." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of WIT." »William Shakespeare |
| "There was never anything by the WIT of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted." »Book of Common Prayer |
| "A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of WIT, and a pebble in the hand of a fool." »Joseph Roux |
| "Silence is as full of potential wisdom and WIT as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture." »Aldous Huxley |
| "Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your WIT or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy." »Johann Georg von Zimmermann |
| "The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor WIT Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it." »Omar Khayym |
| "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 |
| "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." »Lord Chesterfield |
| "No man is wiser for his learning, WIT and wisdom are born WITh a man." »John Selden |
| "There are nine orders of angels, to WIT, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim." »Pope Gregory The Great |
| "The WIT of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne." »Robertson Davies |
| "The German is like the slave who, WIThout chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from WIT" »Heinrich Heine |
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