Wit And Humor Quotes:

Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

- Julianna Baggott

source: Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

topic: Done, Wit And Humor, Republican

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

- Miguel de Cervantes

source: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.316

topic: Genius, Wit And Humor, Wit

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

- Oscar Wilde

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Happiness, Hilarious, Spiritual Happiness, Insults You

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

- Will Rogers

source: In Saturday Review 25 Aug. 1962

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Witty, Big Government, Watchers

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: People, Luck, Enemy, Either Or, Mimicry

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Military History, Military Soldier

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up, Humorous Birthday, Middle Aged

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

- Mark Twain

topic: Funny, Life, Depression, Insanity And Sanity, Metaphors Of Life

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Family, Dance, Genealogy, Inspirational Family

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Book, Beer, Self, Irish Author, Wit And Humor

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Funny, Cute, Sarcastic, Old Jokes, Dark Sarcasm

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.86, Harvard University Press

topic: Character, Ice, Law, Wit And Humor

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

- Robert Benton

source: Source: classic.esquire.com

topic: Differences, Style, Taste, Wit And Humor

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Mind, Wit, Wit And Humor

It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Men, Light, May, Wit And Humor

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

- Max Brooks

topic: Use, Coping, Dyslexia, Wit And Humor, Coping Mechanisms

Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story - because there's an inherent voice you're trying to copy (and often to satirize).

- Alexander Weinstein

source: Source: www.raintaxi.com

topic: Voice, Trying, Tongue, Wit And Humor, Tongue In Cheek

Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique inquiries into trust fund kids, co-opted flags, gubernatorial portraits, art in second-tier cities, and Upper Midwestern esoterica, brim with both wit and humor.

- Joe Meno

topic: Art, Kids, Unique, Supper, Wit And Humor

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what ***** is to erotic language in a good novel.

- James C Humes

topic: Humor, Erotic, Speech, Wit And Humor

Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.84, Courier Corporation

topic: Differences, Light, Duration, Wit And Humor, Electric Light

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

- Leigh Hunt

topic: Quality, Ancient, Modern, Wit And Humor