Wise Quotes
Fools multiply when wise men are silent.
I do not admire people who are wise after the event. I would rather be impaled on the other horn of the dilemma and be called one of the "I told you so's."
But on the whole it is wise in human affairs, and in the government of men, to separate pomp from power.
It is sometimes wise to allow natural processes to work, and crimes and follies to be paid in coin from their own mint.
Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.
Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.
Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.
You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.
What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.
Wise girls kiss but never love,Listen but never believe,And leave before they are left.
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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