Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Interview, The Paris Review (Summer 1956)
“Good wits jump; 45 a word to the wise is enough.”
Variant: Good wits jump; 45 a word to the wise is enough.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 38.
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Miguel de Cervantes178
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547–1616Related quotes
“A word to the wise is enough.”
Dictum sapienti sat est.
Persa, Act IV, scene 7, line 19
Variant translation: A sentence is enough for a sensible man. (translator unknown)
More commonly found as Verbum sapienti (same meaning) and abbreviated to verb. sap. ; proverbially, “A word to the wise is sufficient”
Persa (The Persian)
Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Book III (1761-1762), Ch. 9. Compare: "Great wits jump", John Byrom, The Nimmers; Earl of Buckingham, The Chances, act. iv, scene 1; "Good wits jump", Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, part II, ch. 38.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.”
Pat Conroy book The Prince of Tides
Source: The Prince of Tides
“Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Le silence est l'esprit des sots<br>Et l'une des vertus du sage. <br class="br">Bernard de Bonnard, "Le Silence," http://books.google.com/books?id=9gAvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR14&dq=%22Et+l%27une+des+vertus+du+sage%22+Bonnard&ei=iyzvR-bFOIa4zASV0PyoBQ#PPA244,M1 L'Almanach des Muses (1776) <br class="br">Misattributed
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 99
“No jump is good if the landing is bad.”
Erwan Le Corre (1971)
Source: The Practice of Natural Movement: Reclaim Power, Health, and Freedom (2019), p.344
“Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile”
XIV. 463–466 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Context: Tis sweet to play the fool in time and place,
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile,
The grave in merry measures frisk about,
And many a long-repented word bring out.
