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• WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Wit, n.: The salt with which the American Humorist spoils his cookery .
  .. by leaving it out. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. -- William Hazli
• PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him.
  For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk....
• When the wine is in, the wit is out.
• The man who sees the consistency in things is a wit, the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)...
• A dead comic is at his wit's end...
• A "practical joker" deserves applause for his wit according to its quality.
  Bastinado is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant keelhauling....