wise quotes

“There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.”

— Ken Venturi

“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”

— William Shakespeare

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”

— Jonathan Swift

“I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.”

— Tina Turner

“It is a wise father that knows his own child. ”

— William Shakespeare

“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”

— William Shakespeare

“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”

— Paulo Coelho

“There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.”

— Martin Scorsese

“The good and the wise lead quiet lives.”

“My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.”

— Matthew McConaughey

“You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”

— William Seward Burroughs

“You can never plan the future by the past.”

— Edmund Burke

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

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

“Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. ”

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”

— Douglas Adams

“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”

“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”

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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ”

“He was a wise man who invented beer.”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ”

“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”

“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”

“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

“The wisest have the most authority.”

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