Mother Wit Quotes

• Cuando alguien te muestre quién es, créele a la primera.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiración, Relaciones

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• Recuerdo las oraciones de mi madre y siempre me han seguido. Se han aferrado a mí toda mi vida.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Vida, Familia, Día de la Madre

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). "El Anuario de Lincoln: Axiomas y aforismos del Gran Emancipador", p.25, Biblioteca de Alejandría.

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Mother, Grateful

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• No hay engaño más grande que la idea de que el método y la industria pueden compensar la falta de ingenio, ya sea en la ciencia o en la vida práctica.

  Thomas Huxley

  Vida, Madre, Método

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). "Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley", p.5, Biblioteca de Alejandría

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• There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Children, Knowledge

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• 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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Book, Writing

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.408, Open Road Media

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• Escucha con atención lo que la gente del campo llama "ingenio materno". En esos dichos caseros se encierra la sabiduría colectiva de generaciones.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Country, People

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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.

  Laura Riding

  Mother, Sight, Expression

  "The Matter of Metaphor". "Rational Meaning and Supplementary Essays". Book by Laura Riding and Schuyler B. Jackson, edited by William Harmon, 1997.

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• ¿Qué se hace con el amor y el ingenio maternos cuando los bebés crecen y se van?

  Joanne Greenberg

  Mother, Baby, Gone Away

  Joanne Greenberg (1981). "Season of Delight", Holt McDougal

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• Jigging venas de rima madre ingenio.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Mother, Veins, Rhyming

  Tamburlaine el Grande' (representado hacia 1588, publicado en 1590) pt. 1, prólogo

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

  Gustave Le Bon

  Mother, Stupidity, Crowds

  Gustave Le Bon (2009). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.33, The Floating Press

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