A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
智慧
Wit
Like trying to put a comb upon the nun's head.
就像给修女头上戴梳子一样。
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
你不能把两个笨蛋变成一个聪明人。
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
谁不会为了权力和美而放弃智慧呢?
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
忧郁的人是所有人中最机智的。
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
智慧不足，判断不足;压舱物不足，航行有余。
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
谚语集大成，集大成。
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
自信比机智更有助于交谈。
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
智慧必被智慧所挫败:以牙还牙。
If you have wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
如果你有智慧和学识，那就加上智慧和谦虚吧。
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
聪明的人既要量入为出，也要量入为出。
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
挑起智慧之鞭的人，不能抱怨自己因此而受到伤害。
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
她善于引用别人的话，这是机智的有力替代品。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
在日常交谈中，有两件事是普通人不喜欢的——信息和风趣。
What is a man but his mind?
一个人除了他的思想还能是什么?
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
因为那些智慧成为罪恶之母的人，那些智慧教育他们在所有的事情上都是邪恶的。
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
俏皮话只要我们把它们限制在一定范围内，就会让人高兴，但如果我们把它们推得太过，就会引起冒犯。
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
艺术是如此博大，人类的智慧是如此狭隘。
Use your wit as a shield, not as a sword.
用你的智慧做盾牌，而不是剑。