If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
Martin Luther

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.
Joan Crawford

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan Swift

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
Jonathan Swift

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Voltaire

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
Voltaire

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
Saint Augustine

Be quick to learn and wise to know.
George Burns

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
Marcus Aurelius

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. Eliot

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake