John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
10465 Appendix John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 10465 |
| AUTHOR: | Appendix |
| QUOTATION: | Wisdom of many and the wit of one. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | A definition of a proverb which Lord John Russell gave one morning at breakfast at Mardock’s—“One man’s wit, and all men’s wisdom.”—Memoirs of Mackintosh, vol. ii. p. 473. |