Top 1200 Wit And Humor Quotes & Sayings

Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit, what they're interested in. That's what really shines.

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

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

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).

The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.

Humor is wit and love.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.

My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

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

You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all." -Halt

No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

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

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.

I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

I love watching action films, and especially the little moments of wit and humor in the choreography in a lot of them. The editing of an action sequence often has great moments of comic timing.

One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd, By wit we govern all our actions; Wit is the loadstar of each human thought, Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.

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

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

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.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

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

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.