Top 1200 Wit And Wisdom Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit,
Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit,
That woman's love can win, or long inherit;
But what it is, hard is to say,
Harder to hit.
The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.
If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.
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.
Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.
Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.
wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?
Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.
An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was known for his intelligence, wit, wisdom, a wonderful sense of humour, a great personality, and a genuine goodwill towards all.
Moment I stop havin fun wit it, I'll be done wit it.
When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.
Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.
There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.
I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.
This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
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.
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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.
An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."
He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Season of Miracles is a triumphant story with a heart of gold. Laced with wit and wisdom, the story had me chuckling out loud one minute and wiping away tears the next. Highly recommended!
Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?
The picture placed the busts between
Adds to the thought much strength;
Wisdom and Wit are little seen,
But Folly's at full length.
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.
There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.
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.
After wisdom comes wit.
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.
From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.
Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all." -Halt
Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.
Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
