“Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.” GreaterAdvantageWitRetreatDilemmaDeficiency Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves, for they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance. But this proveth rather that men are in that point equal, than unequal. For there is not ordinarily a greater sign of the equal distribution of any thing than that every man is contented with his share.” MenBelieveMayWisdomHandsGreaterWiseShareEqualDistanceWittyWitEvery ManAcknowledgeDistributionEloquentNature Of Man Book:The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury Source: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury
“Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.” GreaterShareConfidenceConversationWit Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“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.” LifeMotherGreaterIndustryMethodNotionMotherhoodWitPracticalsDelusionMother And SonMother SonPractical LifeMother Son RelationshipMother Wit Book:Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley