Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Michel de MontaigneIt is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
Michel de Montaigne