The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley

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

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber

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

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

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Norman Mailer

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

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
Anacharsis

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 monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John le Carre

It's a wise thing to hold back.
Julian Clary