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  • Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

    Mother   Veins   Rhyming  
    'Tamburlaine the Great' (performed c.1588, published 1590) pt. 1, prologue
  • When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

    Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015
  • In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

    Gustave Le Bon (2009). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.33, The Floating Press
  • What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

    Mother   Baby   Gone Away  
    Joanne Greenberg (1981). “Season of Delight”, Holt McDougal
  • There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.

  • you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

    Mother   Book   Writing  
    Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.408, Open Road Media
  • Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

    Mother   Country   People  
  • Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.

    "The Matter of Metaphor". "Rational Meaning and Supplementary Essays". Book by Laura Riding and Schuyler B. Jackson, edited by William Harmon, 1997.
  • No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

    Life   Mother   Method  
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.5, Library of Alexandria
  • I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

    Life   Mother   Grateful  
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