As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.

Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.

Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.

This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Wit is educated insolence.