Quotes with witticism

  • People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

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  • Minna Thomas Antrim An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a ''joke.''
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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