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Author Quote Preview Edward Abbey Anarchism is founded on the... John Abbott How do you know so much... Lord Acton A wise person does at once... Joseph Addison One should take good care not... Joseph Addison If you wish to succeed in... Aeschylus The wisest of the wise may... Aeschylus It is a profitable thing, if... Aeschylus The one knowing what is... Aeschylus For this is the mark of... Aeschylus Search well and be wise, nor... Aeschylus It is best for the wise... Aesop Better be wise by the... George D. Aiken True conservation provides for wise... Akhenaton The lips of the wise are... Akhenaton Those who gave thee a body... Akhenaton True wisdom is less presuming... Steve Albini By now all rock bands are... Amos Bronson Alcott One must be a wise reader... Alcuin At Athens, wise men propose... Alan Alda Be as smart as you can... Sholom Aleichem Life is a dream for the... Jean Alesi I'm not sure they understand... William Alexander Yet with great toil all that... Washington Allston The only competition worthy of... Anacharsis Wise men argue causes; fools... Anacharsis Wise men argue cases, fools... Harry Anderson Even a fool knows you can't... Brady Anderson It's so funny that people... Harry Anderson Even a fool knows you can't... Minna Antrim A beautiful woman delights the... Thomas Aquinas Every judgement of conscience, be... Aristophanes The wise learn many things... Aristophanes Wise people, even though all... Aristotle The wise man does not expose... Aristotle The aim of the wise is... Roger Ascham To speak as the common people... Arthur Ashe A wise person decides slowly... Isaac Asimov Suppose that we are wise... Mary Astell Women are not so well united... Saint Augustine I have read in Plato and... Marcus Aurelius To the wise, life is a... Roger Babson It is wise to keep in... Francis Bacon Wise men make more opportunities... Francis Bacon It is impossible to love and... Francis Bacon A wise man will make more... Francis Bacon Nothing doth more hurt in a... Douglas Bader Rules are for the obedience of... Brigitte Bardot What could be more beautiful... Natalie Clifford Barney Why grab possessions like thieves... Matsuo Basho Do not seek to follow in... James Beattie Some deemed him wondrous wise... Saul Bellow A fool can throw a stone... Warren G. Bennis Leadership is the wise use of... Ambrose Bierce Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden... Ambrose Bierce Education, n.: That which discloses... Ambrose Bierce Education. That which discloses to... William Blake The fool who persists in his... William Blake A fool sees not the same... William Blake If the fool would persist in... Allan Bloom Fathers and mothers have lost... Hal Borland Man is wise and constantly in... F. H. Bradley It is by a wise economy... Andre Braugher They're mutually incompatible I feel... Bertolt Brecht Poverty makes you wise but... Bertolt Brecht Poverty makes you sad as well... Andre Breton Of all the arts in which... Andre Breton Of all those arts in which... Robert Browning That's the wise thrush; he... Jean de la Bruyere A vain man finds it wise... Jean de la Bruyere The wise person often shuns... Robert Williams Buchanan Sad and sweet and wise Here... Pearl S. Buck Chinese are wise in comprehending... Buddha To be idle is a short... Buddha The wise ones fashioned speech... Edmund Burke To tax and to please, no... Solomon Burke That was my choice at that... George Burns Be quick to learn and wise... Samuel Butler It is a wise tune that... George Byron Nothing can confound a wise... Jerome Cady It is a wise man who... Giraldus Cambrensis Since, therefore, no man is... Thomas Carlyle To reform a world, to reform... Andrew Carnegie Concentrate your energies, your thoughts... Andrew Carnegie I resolved to stop accumulating... John le Carre The monsters of our childhood... William Cartwright The fool inherits, but the... Giacomo Casanova The man who has sufficient... Robert Cecil A wise man looks upon men... Miguel de Cervantes The gratification of wealth is... Miguel de Cervantes Time ripens all things; no man... Miguel De Cervantes To withdraw is not to run... Chanakya O wise man! Give your wealth... Chanakya Do not reveal what you have... Chanakya The wise man should restrain... William Ellery Channing The best books for a man... Pierre Charron God, Nature, the wise, the... Geoffrey Chaucer Women desire six things: They... Lord Chesterfield In seeking wisdom thou art... Lord Chesterfield A wise man will live as... Lord Chesterfield Young men are apt to think... Lydia M. Child Every human being has, like... Agatha Christie Dogs are wise. They crawl away... John Chrysostom The highest point of philosophy... Winston Churchill It is always wise to look... Winston Churchill When you are winning a war... Marcus Tullius Cicero So near is falsehood to truth... Marcus Tullius Cicero The wise are instructed by... Adam Clarke The Bible is proved to be... Julian Clary It's a wise thing to hold... Beverly Cleary I had a very wise mother... Paulo Coelho The wise are wise only because... Frank Moore Colby Politics is a place of humble... Mary Elizabeth Coleridge We were young, we were merry... Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Be happy. It's one way of... Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It is wise to apply the... John Churton Collins A wise man thinks what is... Charles Caleb Colton Silence is foolish if we are... Charles Caleb Colton The mistakes of the fool are... Charles Caleb Colton Power will intoxicate the best... Jeff Cooper A smart man only believes half... Bill Cosby A word to the wise ain't... Frank Crane You are wise, witty and... Michael Crapo It is not government's job to... Joan Crawford Recently I heard a 'wise guy... Isaac D'Israeli The wisdom of the wise, and... Samuel Daniel The wise are above books. Robertson Davies Authors like cats because they... Robertson Davies Every man is wise when... Rebecca H. Davis It is a good rule never... Stockwell Day I wish the government and the... Clarence Day The ant is knowing and wise... Daniel Defoe He that is rich is wise... Demosthenes As a vessel is known by... Demosthenes There is one safeguard known... Bo Derek It's been very nice. I haven't... David Dinkins Today, certain people file for... Diogenes It takes a wise man to... Diogenes Wise kings generally have wise... Benjamin Disraeli The wisdom of the wise and... Benjamin Disraeli The fool wonders, the wise man... Isaac Disraeli The wise make proverbs, and... Larry Dixon You just try to absorb as... Hilda Doolittle Consider the birds. Be wise as... Norman Douglas It takes a wise man to... John Dryden Love works a different way in... Philip Dunne I didn't lead a very wise... Will Durant Bankers know that history is... Freeman Dyson You ask: what is the meaning... Arthur Eddington Oh leave the Wise our measures... Anthony Eden That is a good question for... Albert Einstein Before God we are all equally... Dwight D. Eisenhower Neither a wise man nor a... Pliny the Elder No mortal man, moreover is... George Eliot That's what a man wants in... T. S. Eliot It's not wise to violate rules... Black Elk But I think I have done... Duke Ellington The wise musicians are those... Henry Ellis There has never been any... Paul Engle Wisdom is knowing when you... Robert Englund The modern horror audience is... Quintus Ennius He whose wisdom cannot help... Epictetus He is a wise man who... Epictetus The two powers which in my... Epictetus It is the nature of the... Epicurus Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the... Epicurus The misfortune of the wise is... Leonhard Euler For since the fabric of the... Euripides He was a wise man who... Euripides The good and the wise lead... Euripides Some wisdom you must learn... Euripides The best and safest thing is... William Feather The wisdom of the wise and... F. Scott Fitzgerald My idea is always to reach... Jean de La Fontaine Nothing is as dangerous as an... Jean de La Fontaine Death never takes the wise man... Malcolm Forbes Thinking well to be wise... Anatole France The fool doth think he is... Felix Frankfurter It is a wise man who... Benjamin Franklin Life's Tragedy is that we get... Benjamin Franklin Who is wise? He that learns... Benjamin Franklin Wise men don't need advice... Lucinda Franks Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient... Thomas Fuller A wise man turns chance into... Thomas Fuller The fool wanders, a wise man... Thomas Fuller Travel makes a wise man better... Thomas Fuller A fool's paradise is a wise... Solomon Ibn Gabirol Kings may be judges of the... Solomon Ibn Gabirol A wise man's question contains... Richard Le Gallienne In their work, then, as in... Elizabeth Gaskell Sometimes one likes foolish people... Elizabeth Gaskell A wise parent humors the... Elizabeth Gaskell A wise parent humours the... Kahlil Gibran The teacher who is indeed wise... Mel Gibson And, hey, I'm not under the... Todd Gitlin The mobilisation which Bush has... William Godwin Make men wise, and by that... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ignorant men raise questions that... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Divide and rule, the politician... Carlo Goldoni A wise traveler never depreciates... Oliver Goldsmith A great source of calamity... Baltasar Gracian Even knowledge has to be in... Baltasar Gracian A wise man gets more use... Baltasar Gracian The wise does at once what... Baltasar Gracian Better mad with the rest of... Baltasar Gracian Luck can be assisted. It is... Hugh Grant But I just know from... Thomas Gray Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis... Thomas Gray 'Tis folly to be wise. Vartan Gregorian Libraries keep the records on... Saint Gregory He is not wise to me... George Grenville A wise government knows how to... George Grenville A wise government knows how to... George Grosz I had grown up in a... John B. S. Haldane The wise man regulates his... Edward Everett Hale Wise anger is like fire from... William Hall The sexes were made for each... Philip Gilbert Hamerton Have you ever observed that we... Augustus W. Hare The intellect of the wise is... Albert B. Hart The residence of the Plymouth... William Hazlitt That which is not, shall never... William Hazlitt A wise traveler never despises... William Hazlitt It is not fit that every... William Hazlitt The way to get on in... William Hazlitt There is no one thoroughly... Heinrich Heine Talking and eloquence are not... Jesse Helms I became a Republican when a... Arthur Helps Wise sayings often fall on... Frank Herbert If you think of yourselves as... Frank Herbert It is a wise man that... George Herbert He that is not handsome at... Herodotus The most hateful human misfortune... Napoleon Hill Wise men, when in doubt... Hippocrates A wise man should consider... Thomas Hobbes Such is the nature of men... Thomas Hobbes Words are wise men's counters... Thomas Hobbes Words are the counters of wise... Thomas Hobbes Words are wise men's counters... Thomas Hobbes Words are wise men's counters... Thomas Hobbes A wise man should so write... Eric Hoffer Wise living consists perhaps less... Oliver Wendell Holmes Controversy equalizes fools and wise... Henry Home The truly generous is the... Homer Wise to resolve, and patient... Samuel Hopkins God saw fit, for wise reasons... Horace Who then is free? The wise... Horace He who would begun has half... Horace Who then is free? The wise... Horace Begin, be bold and venture to... Edgar Watson Howe The man who can keep a... William Dean Howells The conqueror is regarded with... Victor Hugo It is from books that wise... Victor Hugo The wise man does not grow... David Hume A wise man proportions his... David Hume Every wise, just, and mild... Fannie Hurst It takes a clever man to... Thomas Huxley Logical consequences are the scarecrows... Thomas Huxley I am content with nothing... Thomas Huxley The world is neither wise nor... Thomas Huxley Teach a child what is wise... Thomas Huxley The only question which any... Guillermo C. Infante A very wise author once said... Dean Inge The wisdom of the wise is... Dean Inge The wise man is he who... Muhammad Iqbal Why should I ask the wise... Glenda Jackson I look forward to growing old... William James The art of being wise is... Anna Jameson The only competition worthy a... Famke Janssen Everybody gets typecast in movies... Thomas Jefferson A wise and frugal government... Samuel Johnson A wise man is cured of... Samuel Johnson Between falsehood and useless truth... Samuel Johnson A wise man will make haste... Samuel Johnson Love is the wisdom of the... Andrew Johnson Legislation can neither be wise... Samuel Johnson Let me smile with the wise... Ben Jonson To speak and to speak well... Leon Kass One should proceed with caution... Leon Kass We may simply not be wise... Andreas Katsulas It's just a logical guess that... John Keats I will give you a definition... Helen Keller No matter how dull, or how... Helen Keller Self-pity is our worst enemy... Stan Kenton Some of the wise boys who... Omar Khayyam Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though... Brian Koslow During a negotiation, it would... Judith Krantz It can't possibly last for... Karl Kraus Education is a crutch with... Charles Kuralt When we become a really mature... Louis L'Amour A wise man fights to win... Hedy Lamarr I have not been that wise... Alphonse de Lamartine Experience is the only prophecy... Richard Lamm Politics, like theater, is one... Walter Savage Landor The wise become as the unwise... Walter Savage Landor The writing of the wise are... Laozi For the wise man looks into... David Herbert Lawrence It's bad taste to be wise... Norman Lear The American people may not be... Harper Lee Many receive advice, only the... Bruce Lee A wise man can learn more... Jay Leno The Supreme Court has ruled... Sam Levenson It's so simple to be wise... Sam Levenson It's so simple to be wise... Georg C. Lichtenberg We have no words for speaking... Anne Morrow Lindbergh I do not believe that sheer... Bai Ling I often feel like I have... Mary Wilson Little He who devotes sixteen hours a... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A single conversation across the... Sophia Loren The two big advantages I had... Samuel Lover Circumstances are the rulers of... James Russell Lowell Compromise makes a good umbrella... John Lubbock A wise system of education... Martin Luther If you young fellows were wise... Robert Bulwer-Lytton A fool flatters himself, a... Thomas B. Macaulay Few of the many wise apothegms... Niccolo Machiavelli The wise man does at once... Niccolo Machiavelli A wise ruler ought never to... Naguib Mahfouz You can tell whether a man... Norman Mailer Hip is the sophistication of... Charles Manson I'm not very wise to many... Gabriel Marcel The wise man knows how to... George Mason Your dear baby has died... Philip Massinger Be wise; soar not too high... Scott McCallum Maybe politically it wasn't wise... David McCullough May none but honest and wise... Bryant H. McGill Where wise actions are the... Margaret Mead I was wise enough to never... Alexander Meiklejohn Whatever the immediate gains and... Herman Melville There are some persons in this... H. L. Mencken It is impossible to imagine... H. L. Mencken Giving every man a vote has... H. L. Mencken No matter how long he lives... Gian Carlo Menotti A man only becomes wise when... Thomas Middleton A little too wise, they say... Henry Miller No man is great enough or... Olin Miller If you realize you aren't so... John Milton When complaints are freely heard... Moliere A wise man is superior to... Moliere Perfect reason flees all extremity... Maria Monk Unfortunately, I was not wise... Elizabeth Montagu I endeavor to be wise when... Elizabeth Montagu I endeavor to be wise when... Michel de Montaigne A wise man sees as much... Michel de Montaigne We can be knowledgable with... Michel de Montaigne Fortune, seeing that she could... Michel de Montaigne A wise man never loses... Michel de Montaigne We can be knowledgeable with... Charles de Montesquieu I have always observed that to... Thomas More Ask a woman's advice, and... John Raleigh Mott Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have... George Jean Nathan Beauty makes idiots sad and... Emil Nolde Clever people master life; the... Alden Nowlan The day the child realizes... Ed O'Brien Of the 25 songs we've recorded... Sean O'Casey The hallway of every man's... Barney Oliver Above all, I would not expect... Origen But Paul, in his preaching of... Origen For if the mystery concealed... William Osler Look wise, say nothing, and... Ovid At times it is folly to... Saskya Pandita If a wise man behaves... Blaise Pascal Belief is a wise wager... Alan Paton Who knows for what we live... John Patrick Pain makes man think. Thought... William Penn Knowledge is the treasure, but... William Penn Knowledge is the treasure of a... William Penn In marriage do thou be wise... Sonny Perdue We want a state wise in... Fernando Pessoa Wise is he who enjoys the... Gifford Pinchot Conservation means the wise use... Pindar Great deeds give choice of... Harold Pinter I never think of myself as... Rick Pitino He knew I enjoyed the... Plato Wise men speak because they... Plato A hero is born among a... Plato He was a wise man who... Plato Wise men talk because they... Plato We ought to fly away from... Plato Love is the joy of the... Plato Poets utter great and wise... Plato The punishment which the wise... Titus Maccius Plautus Every man, however wise, needs... Titus Maccius Plautus No man is wise enough by... Titus Maccius Plautus A word to the wise is... Plutarch To make no mistakes is not... Plutarch For to err in opinion, though... John Podesta I believe that President Clinton... Edgar Allan Poe I have no faith in human... Frederick Pollock Our lady the Common Law is... Alexander Pope How prone to doubt, how... Alexander Pope Many men have been capable of... Marcel Proust There is no man, however wise... Francis Quarles Be wisely worldly, but not... Philippe Quinault It is not wise to be... Marcus Fabius Quintilian Those who wish to appear wise... Francois Rabelais How do you know antiquity was... Michael Reed Any fool can say he is... Theodor Reik The man who has never made... Grantland Rice A wise man makes his own... Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards We never can tell how our... Samuel Richardson There are men who think... Joan Rivers Don't follow any advice, no... Tim Robbins If I'm a commodity, it... Frederick William Robertson A silent man is easily reputed... Francois de La Rochefoucauld A wise man thinks it more... Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is easier to be wise... Francois de La Rochefoucauld It's easier to be wise for... Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is great folly to wish... Francois de La Rochefoucauld He who lives without folly... Francois de La Rochefoucauld It's the height of folly to... Richard Rolle It behoves thee to love God... Theodore Roosevelt Nine-tenths of wisdom is being... Theodore Roosevelt Nine-tenths of wisdom consists... Phil Rosenthal At what point does CNN wise... Helen Rowland A wise woman puts a grain... Marquis de Sade There is no God, Nature... George Santayana Almost every wise saying has... George Santayana In Greece wise men speak and... George Savile Nothing would more contribute to... Friedrich Schiller It is often wise to reveal... Friedrich Schiller They would need to be already... Arthur Schopenhauer The wise have always said the... Franz Schubert The greatest misfortune of the... Howard Schultz Care more than others think... Albert Schweitzer An optimist is a person who... Albert Schweitzer An optimist is a person who... Richard G. Scott In quiet moments when you... David Seabury A wise unselfishness is not a... Charles de Secondat I have always observed that to... John Selden Wise people say nothing in... Lucius Annaeus Seneca No man was ever wise by... Lucius Annaeus Seneca Ignorant people see life as... Lucius Annaeus Seneca Religion is regarded by the... Lucius Annaeus Seneca A physician is not angry at... William H. Seward If slavery, limited as it yet... William Shakespeare Let me embrace thee, sour... William Shakespeare A fool thinks himself to be... William Shakespeare It is a wise father that... William Shakespeare Modest doubt is called the... Karl Shapiro Poetry is innocent, not wise... Omar Sharif This character in the film... George Bernard Shaw We are made wise not by... George Bernard Shaw Men are wise in proportion... Sidney Sheldon The Dalai Lama. He is a... Percy Bysshe Shelley Government is an evil; it is... Shel Silverstein Tell me I'm clever, Tell me... Diogenes of Sinope There is only a finger's... Diogenes of Sinope Wise leaders generally have wise... Swami Sivananda Life is a pilgrimage. The wise... Samuel Smiles The wise man... if he would... Alexander Smith The dead keep their secrets... Tobias Smollett Some folks are wise and some... King Solomon Who is the wise man? He... King Solomon A fool is wise in his... Sophocles A wise doctor does not mutter... Sophocles A wise man does not chatter... Sophocles Wise thinkers prevail everywhere... Robert South The seven wise men of Greece... Robert South Speech was given to the... Herbert Spencer The wise man must remember... Charles Spurgeon Wisdom is the right use of... Stendhal A wise woman never yields by... Cat Stevens There was no division I could... Alexander T. Stewart You must be wise, but not... Joseph Story Republics are created by the... Claude Levi-Strauss The wise man doesn't give the... Susan Sullivan Mitch and I have known each... Jonathan Swift A wise man should have money... Jonathan Swift No wise man ever wished to... Jonathan Swift The latter part of a wise... Jonathan Swift A wise person should have... Thomas Sydenham For humble individuals like myself... Publilius Syrus From the errors of others, a... Thomas Szasz The stupid neither forgive nor... Sara Teasdale When I can look life in... Sara Teasdale Call him wise whose actions... Sara Teasdale It is strange how often a... Sara Teasdale When I can look at Life... Alfred Lord Tennyson Who is wise in love, love... Terence You're a wise person if you... Twyla Tharp It was not until I had... Hunter S. Thompson A word to the wise is... Hunter S. Thompson No man is so foolish but... Henry David Thoreau All this worldly wisdom was... Henry David Thoreau I have always been regretting... James Thurber A word to the wise is... John Tillotson Zeal is fit for wise men... James Tobin My father also happened to be... Kiana Tom Business wise, I have always... Calvin Trillin When it comes to Chinese food... Tina Turner I'm not wise, but the... Lao Tzu The wise man does not lay... Lao Tzu He who knows others is wise... Sun Tzu Now the reason the enlightened... Sun Tzu The skilful employer of men... Sun Tzu It is only the enlightened... Morihei Ueshiba Study how water flows in a... Voltaire Is there anyone so wise as... Voltaire He is a hard man who... Voltaire He who is not just is... Voltaire Superstition is to religion what... William A. Ward Wise are those who learn that... William A. Ward It is wise to direct your... William A. Ward Wise are they who have learned... William A. Ward We can learn much from wise... George Washington Let us raise a standard to... John Webster Tis better to be fortunate... John Webster Though lust do masque in ne'er... H. G. Wells Affliction comes to us, not to... Margaret J. Wheatley Listening is such a simple act... Bryan White There are peaks and valleys in... Alfred North Whitehead No one who achieves success... William Whitelaw It is never wise to try... Walt Whitman The shallow consider liberty a... Oscar Wilde The well bred contradict other... Roy H. Williams A smart man makes a mistake... George C. Williams Job's avoidance of rebellion against... Ludwig Wittgenstein Our greatest stupidities may be... Stevie Wonder The two big advantages I had... John Woolman The care of a wise and... William Wordsworth The mind that is wise mourns... Wilbur Wright Men become wise just as they... Xenophanes It takes a wise man to... William Butler Yeats Think like a wise man but... William Butler Yeats If suffering brings wisdom, I... Brigham Young It is wise for us to... Edward Young Be wise with speed; a fool... Edward Young Wise it is to comprehend the... Edward Young The weak have remedies, the... Lin Yutang The wise man reads both books... Jason Zebehazy A wise man writes down what...

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