Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Be prepared to fall out of love with your words. I'm still too verbose at times.
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Your wit makes others witty.