What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away? — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom! — Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage Copy Share Image
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… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“My dear child, you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“This faculty is mother wit, the creative power through which man is capable of recognising likenesses and making them himself. We see… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” She said that I must always… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
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