Authors:
Quotes › Authors › A › Aristotle › Wit

Aristotle Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit
Accidents Acting Adultery Adventure Adversity Affairs Affection Age Aids Ambition Anger Animals Appearance Arguing Art Atheism Beauty Being Happy Being The Best Belief Best Friends Birth Bravery Business Character Charity Children Choices College Education Communism Community Conflict Conformity Consciousness Constitution Contemplation Courage Creation Creativity Crime Culture Decisions Democracy Depression Desire Destiny Difficulty Dignity Discipline Diversity Doubt Dreams Drinking Duty Earth Economy Education Effort Emotions Enemies Energy Envy Equality Ethics Evidence Evil Excellence Exercise Expectations Eyes Failing Failure Fairness Family Fate Fathers Fear Feelings Freedom Friends Friendship Funny Gardens Genius Giving Goals God Gold Goodness Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greek Growth Habits Happiness Happy Harmony Hate Hatred Heart Heaven History Honesty Honor Hope Human Nature Humanity Ignorance Imagination Imitation Immortality Injustice Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Intuition Joy Judging Justice Kindness Knowledge Labor Laughter Leadership Learning Liberalism Liberty Life Literature Living Together Logic Love Love And Friendship Lying Madness Making A Difference Making Money Management Mankind Math Mathematics Meaning Of Life Meditation Memories Metaphor Metaphysics Middle Class Military Moderation Monarchy Money Morality Mothers Motivation Motivational Myth Nature Neighbors Obedience Observation Offense Office Old Age Opinions Overcoming Pain Pain And Pleasure Parents Parties Passion Past Peace Perception Perfection Performing Perseverance Persuasion Philanthropy Philosophy Plato Pleasure Politicians Politics Positive Positivity Poverty Power Praise Productivity Property Prosperity Prudence Purpose Quality Rebellion Relationships Religion Representation Responsibility Revenge Revolution Rhetoric Royalty Running Sacrifice School Science Self Control Self Esteem Seven Simplicity Slavery Slaves Social Justice Society Son Soul Spirituality Sports Spring Students Study Style Success Suffering Summer Talent Teachers Teaching Temperance Time Tragedy Train Training True Friends Truth Tyranny Understanding Unity Values Victory Virtue War Water Wealth Wife Winning Wisdom Wit Work Writing Youth

  • Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

    Aristotle
    Humor, Examination, Tests

  • Wit is educated insolence.

    Aristotle
    Inspirational, Witty, Humorous
    Aristotle (1909). “The Rhetoric of Aristotle: A Translation”

  • Wit is cultured insolence.

    Aristotle
    Humor, Insolence, Wit
    Aristotle (1959). “Aristotle, with an English Translation: The "Art" of Rhetoric”

  • Wit is well-bred insolence.

    Aristotle
    Insolence, Wit, Wells
You May Also Like:
Plato
Socrates
Democritus
Galileo Galilei
Alexander the Great
Thomas Aquinas
Rene Descartes

Related Authors

Aristotle

Follow
  • Born: 384 BC
  • Died: 322 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher
  • Cite this Page: Citation
1272
Quotes
162
Followers

Get Social with AzQuotes

Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends

Join us on Facebook Join us on Twitter Join us on Google+