513 Quotes About Wit

Arendt's laughter was the laughter of incongruence, the laughter that erupts when facing absurdity, a pause to catch one's breath. We happen upon something that makes no sense, we laugh, and respond with wit. For while laughter is a re-action, irony and wit are (spoken or written) actions. Irony expresses the unwillingness or the inability to put up with nonsense. Wit arises when people can easily and quickly see similarities between dissimilar things.

All flesh is as grass and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass

Wit is good place for hiding pain.

Deal with your own stupid planet, you idiot. Don’t make me come over there and slap you around again.

A man through wit May pass another’s wisdom in the race.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but please don't wrong me if I'm correct.

NOC, NOC, who isn't there?

Now, really, how archCan you be when you marchWith a sword, With a spear? You belongTo a curious team,You're in the extreme,Maybe left, Maybe right,Maybe wrong.

Whenever I read the term 'belief system', somewhere between my eyes and my brain, it becomes 'coping mechanism.