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«Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.»
Author: Phaedrus | Keywords: boundaries, offense, pushed, witticism, witticisms
«Avoid witticisms at the expense of others»
Author: Horace Mann | Keywords: expense, witticism, witticisms
«An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.»
Author: Minna Antrim | Keywords: flashlight, witticism, witticisms
«A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | Keywords: Paris, witticism, witticisms
«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.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | Keywords: amuse, battered, coppers, freight, freighted, freight train, Puns, railroad, railroads, railroad track, tracks, upset, wanton, wantons, witticism, witticisms
«Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | About: Failure | Keywords: calamitous, detailed, drawn-out, mishap, Mishaps, witticism, witticisms
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