Wit Wisdom Quotes: top 53 famous quotes about Wit Wisdom

Wit Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

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If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion — Benny Bellamacina

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. — John Selden

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

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

Simple words can be given powerful meanings. Wit and wisdom are simple words that speak to truth. — Jim Boyd

To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love. — Debasish Mridha

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be - a Christian. — Mark Twain

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture. — Moses Harvey

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone. — Marcel Proust

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom. — Bias Of Priene

Man's wisdom detracts from the glory of God, who is more honoured by the simplicity of the gospel, than luxuriance of wit. — Stephen Charnock

Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness ... — Robert E. Howard

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom. — W. Somerset Maugham

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. — Tom Robbins

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. — Mary Astell

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile. — Maureen Dowd

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. — Elbert Hubbard

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to. — George Horne

The important thing to remember is not to forget — Benny Bellamacina

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. — Aldous Huxley

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

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

I wish for you the wisdom to mind your own business. — Steve Maraboli

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

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence. — Alice Thomas Ellis

Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one. — Trent Zelazny

After wisdom comes wit. — Evan Esar

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. — Joseph Addison

Listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations. When — Maya Angelou

Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has. — Jean Ferris

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it. — Tessa Dare

Frame everything and some of it will become art. — Benny Bellamacina

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

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

Wit and wisdom are born with a man. — John Selden

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. — Jane Austen

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble. — Criss Jami

A bunch of bad songs, make an awful whine. — Benny Bellamacina

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I shall always inspire many hearts in timeless moments. — Angelica Hopes

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit. — Danny Wallace

As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom. — Pythagoras

The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length. — Jane Brereton

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. — Lord John Russell

Sometimes being given the elbow can turn out to be the best hand. — Benny Bellamacina

Rudolph Walsh, you are my fierce advocate, and your wit and wisdom — Curtis Sittenfeld

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit. — Benjamin Franklin

Everything's going to work out. 'Cause remember
you're the toughest fifteen-year-old on the planet, right? — Haruki Murakami

Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books. — Carolyn Hart

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him. — Elizabeth I

It is a mere needless thing to fight with ignorance with all your true strength except you can educate and change ignorance with wit and wisdom — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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. — Mark Lawrence

Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system. — Dean Koontz