Proverbs with Keyword: "WIT"
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- W542 As much WIT as three folks, two fools and a madman
- W543 Better a WIT cof't¹ than two for nought
- W544 Better WIT than wealth
- W545 Bought WIT is best
- W546 Bought WIT is dear
- W547 Do not set your WIT against a fool's (a child)
- W548 He has more WIT in his head than you in both your shoulders
- W549 He has more WIT in his little finger than you have in your whole hand (body)
- W550 He has no more WIT than a stone
- W551 He has some WIT but a fool has the guiding of it
- W552 He has WIT at will
- W553 He has WIT (wisdom) at will that with angry heart can hold him still
- W554 He shows all his WIT at once
- W555 His WIT is in the wane
- W556 It is good to buy WIT with other men's money
- W557 It is WIT to pick a lock and steal a horse but wisdom to let them alone
- W558 Leave WIT before it leave you
- W559 Little WIT makes mickle travel¹
- W560 Little WIT serves unto whom fortune pipes
- W561 No more WIT than a coot
- W562 Such a one has a good WIT if a wise man had the keeping of it
- W563 They talk as their WIT serves them
- W564 To have WIT (no wit) in one's noddle
- W565 WIT bought is better than wit taught
- W566 WIT in a poor man's head and moss in a mountain avail nothing
- W567 WIT is never good till it be bought (dearly bought)
- W568 The WIT of a woman is a great matter
- W569 The WIT (thrift) of you and the wool of a blue dog will make a good medley (web)
- W570 WIT, whither wilt thou?
- W571 You have a little WIT and it does you good sometimes
- W572 You have WIT enough to drown ships in
- W573 You may truss up all his WIT in an eggshell
- W574 You were born when WIT was scarce
- W575 He is at his WIT's end
- W576 The finest WITS are soonest subject to love
- W577 Good WITS have short (bad) memories
- W578 Good WITS jump¹
- W579 Great WITS (Poets) to madness sure are near allied
- W580 He always has his WITS about him
- W581 He lives by his WITS
- W582 His WITS go a woolgathering
- W583 To be frightened (scared) out of one's WITS (five wits and seven senses)