The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
A dram of mother’s wit is better than a pound of school smarts. (English)
A handful of mother wit is worth a bushel of learning. (Spanish)
An ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound of school-wit. (German)
An ounce of wit that is bought, is worth a pound that is taught. (Poor Richard)
As many heads, as many wits. (Spanish)
Better wit than wealth. (English)
Might and courage require wit in their suite. (Danish)
One cannot live by another’s wits. (Yiddish)
Pen and ink is wit’s plow. (English)
The wit one lacks spoils what one has. (French)
There is nothing more telling than wit. (Roman)
Ushered in according to your clothes, ushered out according to your wit. (Yiddish)
Where there is no wit within no wit will come out. (Danish)
Wit without discretion is a sword in the hand of a fool. (Spanish)
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