Wit
of Wit
To know; to learn.
Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.
Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.
A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.
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Wit Quotations
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Mark Twain
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
There's many a man has more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
Wit Translations
wit in Dutch is spriet, boegspriet
wit in German is Verstand, Witz
wit in Italian is giudizio
wit in Latin is sal, lepor lepos
wit in Portuguese is sagacidade
wit in Swedish is vett, kvickhet, kvickhuvud
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