John Selden Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• 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

  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

• Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

  John Selden

  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

• Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

  John Selden

  Plot, Affair, States

  John Selden (1856). “The table-talk of John Selden, with a biogr. preface and notes by S.W. Singer”, p.167

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

  John Selden

  Ends, Wit, Wit And Wisdom

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1689). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden”, p.151

• Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

  John Selden

  Wit, Spoil, Stills

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1689). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden”, p.152

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