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"Caviar to the general" Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 431–440 ...brevity is the soul of wit, Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't, There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.
The Soul of Wit (1924) anthology of epigrams; The Making (1926) The Latin Portrait: An Anthology (1929) Nonesuch Press edited with Charles Stonehill. Light in Six Moods (1930) John Lord, Satirist (1934) Wit's Looking-Glass (1934) anthology of French epigrams; The Greek Portrait (1934) Nonesuch Press editor; Unknown Lovers (1935)
An older English term that was sometimes used for this meaning is afterwit; it is used, for example, in James Joyce's Ulysses (Chapter 9).. The Yiddish trepverter ("staircase words") [4] and the German loan translation Treppenwitz express the same idea as l'esprit de l'escalier.
Title page of Greene's Groats-worth of Wit 1592. Greenes, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance (1592) is a tract published as the work of the Elizabethan author Robert Greene. It was published as a short book or pamphlet, a form that was popular and which contributed to the lively intellectual life of the time.
David Soul, an actor who rocketed to fame in the 1970s as the blond half of the TV crime-fighting duo “Starsky and Hutch” and went on to become a successful pop singer, has died.
Within this ancient soul dualism tradition, every living human has both a hun spiritual, ethereal, yang soul which leaves the body after death, and also a po corporeal, substantive, yin soul which remains with the corpse of the deceased. Medjed; Mitama; Soul dualism, similar beliefs in other animistic beliefs
The play concerns itself with education rather than salvation, stemming from Redford's role as a teacher rather than as a preacher. The character Wit initially sets off with naive enthusiasm to learn by his own initiative, but eventually gains appreciation for the guidance of instruction in a narrative that contains elements of chivalric ...