A Quote by Evan Esar

After wisdom comes wit.

Evan Esar

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After Wisdom Wit

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Evan Esar
American - Writer
1899 - 1995

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

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

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

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

Lord John Russell

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Evan Esar

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

Benjamin Franklin

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

Moses Harvey

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

Benjamin Franklin

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

John Lyly

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” - Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us from.