Wit And Wisdom Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  People, Grace, Newspapers

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.208, Oxford University Press

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

  John Selden

  Ends, Wit, Turns

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

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• 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.

  Larry Heinemann

  Book, Grace, Soldier

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• 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!

  Deborah Raney

  Heart, Miracle, Tears

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• 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.

  George W. Bush

  Book, Humor, Guy

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• 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.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Children, World, Fields

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.237, tredition

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