The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?’
Polk...is just qualified for an eminent County Court lawyer....He has no wit, no literature, no point of argument, no gracefulness of delivery, no eloquence of language, no philosophy, no pathos, no felicitous impromptus; nothing that can constitute an orator, but confidence, fluency, and labor.
After his Presidency, Adams served in the House of Representatives for many years and was thus active in politics.
There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
The funniest thing about some people is that they have no sense of humor.
Stupidity is not my strong suit.
They have a plentiful lack of wit.
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
The biggest void that people can have in their lives is a sense of humor. Spending your life with someone who doesn't have that wouldn't be palatable.
Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]
Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.
One can have a wit, but not a witless
Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.
I don't think I am particularly funny. In fact, I know I'm not.
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.