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Wit Quotes by Francis Bacon
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
- But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered…
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must…
- Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if…
- The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
More Wit Quotes
- Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen
- The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. — Avicenna
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce
- Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting… — Bono
- Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you… — Geraldine Brooks
- I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems… — Alton Brown
- I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other… — Carrie Brownstein
- It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. — Jean de la Bruyere