The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?’
Polk...is just qualified for an eminent County Court lawyer....He has no wit, no literature, no point of argument, no gracefulness of delivery, no eloquence of language, no philosophy, no pathos, no felicitous impromptus; nothing that can constitute an orator, but confidence, fluency, and labor.
After his Presidency, Adams served in the House of Representatives for many years and was thus active in politics.
There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
Stupidity is not my strong suit.
The funniest thing about some people is that they have no sense of humor.
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
They have a plentiful lack of wit.
The biggest void that people can have in their lives is a sense of humor. Spending your life with someone who doesn't have that wouldn't be palatable.
Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.
Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.
Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.
One can have a wit, but not a witless
I don't think I am particularly funny. In fact, I know I'm not.
I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.