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I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.
A witty saying proves nothing.
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Don't set your wit against a child.
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.
Far less envy in America than in France.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
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