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Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs. (Quote by - Esther Dyson)

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit. (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)

We will fight this war on terror with every resource of our national power. (Quote by - George W Bush)

I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen. (Quote by - Mariah Carey)

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. (Quote by - Cervantes)

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. (Quote by - Mark Van Doren)

Irrevocable as a haircut. (Quote by - Lynwood L. Giacomini)

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)

Wit is educated insolence. (Quote by - Aristotle)

His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home. (Quote by - William Cowper)

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. (Quote by - James Thurber)

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. (Quote by - Lionel Strachey)

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest -- then we can all die laughing. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.' (Quote by - Britney Spears)

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. (Quote by - Andreas Gryphius)

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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. (Quote by - Aristotle)

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30, the wit; at 40, the judgment. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Do sometimes sink with their own weights. (Quote by - Catherine, the Great)

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