As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward Gibbon

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
William Cowper

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
William Wordsworth

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
Elizabeth Moon

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
Shmuel Y. Agnon

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
John Heywood

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Maimonides

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord Byron

We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
Origen

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
Mason Cooley