It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas.
VIPessays now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Letter "W" » witticism
«Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.»
«Avoid witticisms at the expense of others»
«An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.»
«A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a 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.»
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»