And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes.
I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
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.
Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category.
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
wit is often its own worst enemy.
One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.
They have a plentiful lack of wit.