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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.
Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children.
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.
[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.
You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Niggas wit no money act like money isn't everything.
Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
I'm a quick wit, straight to the point, no nonsense.
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.
True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.
The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.
I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.
Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
I'm the best now Anybody wit some money should invest now
I hope wit comes through in all the characters I portray.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.
Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.
I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me.