What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Stevie Wonder

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Sam Levenson

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Edward Everett Hale

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Giacomo Casanova

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Wilbur Wright

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Moliere

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
Samuel Smiles

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Herodotus