A Quote by Lord John Russell

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Lord John Russell

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Lord John Russell
British - Celebrity
August 8, 1792 - May 28, 1878

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

John Selden

Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom - or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form.

George W. Bush

By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd, By wit we govern all our actions; Wit is the loadstar of each human thought, Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.

Robert Greene

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

Josh Billings

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

Anuj

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

Thomas Reid

I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

Louis L'Amour

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

John Keats

After wisdom comes wit.

Evan Esar

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

Agnes Repplier

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden

An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

Evan Esar

Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And many, have attained, dull and untaught,The name of wit, only by finding fault.True judges, might condemn their want of wit,And all might say, they're by a woman writ.