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  • 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.

    Wisdom   Men   May  
    John SELDEN, Richard Milward (1786). “Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq.; or his sence of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State. Edited by R. Milward”, p.77
  • Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use them to verify or discredit whatever theory may have been advanced concerning them, so it is the province of a living theology to be constantly seeking from God the wit and wisdom that will interpret anew and more truly the parable of life.

    Religion   Facts   Use  
    Burnett Hillman Streeter, Arthur Clutton-Brock, Cyril William Emmet, James Arthur Hadfield, Lily Dougall (1922). “Immortality: An Essay in Discovery, Co-ordinating Scientific, Psychical, and Biblical Research”
  • Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

    Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.44, Workman Publishing
  • You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

    Hands   Needs   Use  
  • Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

    Apples   Want   Sake  
  • Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

    Men   Thinking   Born  
    John Selden, Richard Milward (1786). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq., or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence. Relating especially to religion and state”, p.77
  • Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

    Yogi Berra (2001). “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes”
  • Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Money  
    Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.33, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    Book   Grace   Soldier  
  • 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!

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

    Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books
  • The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

  • 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.

    Children   World   Fields  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.237, tredition
  • 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

    Following the Equator ch. 25, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)
  • Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

  • 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.

    Book   Humor   Guy  
  • 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.

    Dog   Perfect   Profound  
    John Muir (1990). “Stickeen”, p.15, Heyday
  • Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Sex  
    Notebook, 1894
  • You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

    Funny   Death   Hilarious  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

    John Selden, Richard Milward (1689). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden”, p.151
  • When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.

    Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.208, Oxford University Press
  • I can resist everything except temptation.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Witty  
    Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25
  • Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

    Mistake   Apples   Want  
    Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)
  • If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

    Truth   Believe   Mean  
    Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.470, 谷月社
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