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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
Thankfully, God brought wise Christian friends alongside to help me discover life-transforming precepts in his Word.
I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
Job-wise I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago but I hate when people vomit.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.
You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.
In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.
Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.
Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.
Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.
Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!
Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.
Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.
Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.
A wise person does not undertake any business with the risk of losing the capital money in search of making a profit.
Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it.
Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.
If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.
Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.
Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.
All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women.
While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
Health-wise there is nothing to worry about. Though I had gone through a surgery sometime ago, it was nothing serious.
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.