I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
Tina Turner

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
Thomas More

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
Sophocles

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
Sophocles

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Sophocles

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
George Mason

A word to the wise is enough.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Titus Maccius Plautus

No man is wise enough by himself.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
Camille Paglia

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Horace

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Omar Khayyam

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A wise man's question contains half the answer.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Helen Rowland

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Jean de La Fontaine