Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz

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

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Cat Stevens

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Robertson Davies

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Robertson Davies

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine

'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Anatole France

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

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean de la Bruyere

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Friedrich Schiller

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
Friedrich Schiller