WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:26:27 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg in-joke – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Chesterfield (Lord) -- Letter to his son, #167 (29 Oct 1748) https://wist.info/chesterfield-lord/46091/ https://wist.info/chesterfield-lord/46091/#respond Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:29:41 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=46091 Remember, that the wit, humor, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting. Every company is differently circumstanced, has its particular cant, and jargon; which may give occasion to wit and mirth, within that circle, but would seem flat and insipid in any other, and therefore will not bear repeating.


Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, wit [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
Letter to his son, #167 (29 Oct 1748)
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