Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

After wisdom comes wit.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Wit is educated insolence.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

Wit: a whim followed by a wham.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.