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Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.
You don't have to learn to be wise. If you just flow you can be successful. Mother Nature will carry you.
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.
Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.
Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!
When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.
God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.
The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.
Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.
Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]
The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.
The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.