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“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.”

Firsts Mother Common Practice Expression Solutions Sight Metaphor Aids Wit Features Speakers Respectable Jam Halt Confronting Expediency Homely Mother Wit

Author:Laura Riding

“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.”

Ifs Men Giving Writing Long Doe Book Mother Names Wit Old Fashioned Holmes Mother Wit

Book:The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death

Source: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death

“What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?”

Mother Gone Baby Wit Mother Love Gone Away Mother Wit

Book:Season of Delight

Source: Season of Delight

“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 Greater Industry Method Notion Motherhood Wit Practicals Delusion Mother And Son Mother Son Practical Life Mother Son Relationship Mother Wit

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

“In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.”

Mother Crowds Stupidity Wit Mother Wit

Book:The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.”

Mother Wit Veins Rhyming Mother Wit

Author:Christopher Marlowe

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

“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.”

People Knows Life Mean Used Mother Black Intellectual Intelligent Grateful Wit Educated Rely Old People Womb Mother Wit

Author:Maya Angelou

“Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.”

People Country Mother Generations Motherhood Wit Collectives Homely Collective Wisdom Mother Wit

Author:Maya Angelou