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It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.
I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.
The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.
I know content-wise I leave nothing to chance. I have no anxiety about what I'm going to do once I'm out on stage.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.
Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.
Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.
Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.
Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Anyone starting to garden... would be wise to look around carefully and see what grows well in other people's yards.
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.
Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.