Mother-wit Quotes

Metaphor... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight. (Laura Riding)
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
For all that Nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth. View quote
Edmund Spenser