"Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out."
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"Now what happens?"asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended,"Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone.""You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?"
"In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge."
"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
"She bats her eyelashes like I’m throwing baseballs at them. I must be as romantic as Pete Rose’s last name."
"The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books."
"I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way."
"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."
"The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show."
"Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb."
"I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know."
"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
"A gumble bee is half gum ball, half bumble bee, and it’s so chewy it stings. Makes me want to be a better lover and tractor salesman."
"Ack!"I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me."
"A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle."
"Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth."
"One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone."
"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."
"Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care."
"Wit is the lowest form of humor."