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Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.
Sep 24, 2025
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
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.
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!
An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.
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.
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.
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do
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