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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
‐‐ Bruce Lee -
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
‐‐ Sophocles -
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
‐‐ Louis L'Amour -
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian -
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson -
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
‐‐ Moliere -
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
‐‐ Robert Cecil -
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
‐‐ Grantland Rice -
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne -
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
‐‐ David Hume -
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
‐‐ Solomon Ibn Gabirol -
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne -
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
‐‐ Hippocrates -
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift -
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
‐‐ Thomas Hobbes -
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
‐‐ John Churton Collins -
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller -
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield -
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson -
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
‐‐ Francis Bacon -
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
‐‐ Jon Meacham -
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gaskell -
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
‐‐ Arthur Ashe -
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
‐‐ Lord Acton -
A wise person does not undertake any business with the risk of losing the capital money in search of making a profit.
‐‐ Thiruvalluvar -
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift -
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli -
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
‐‐ John Lubbock -
A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
‐‐ Carlo Goldoni -
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
‐‐ David Seabury -
A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
‐‐ Suze Orman -
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
‐‐ Stendhal -
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
‐‐ Helen Rowland -
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
‐‐ Suze Orman -
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
‐‐ Maya Angelou -
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
‐‐ Howard Crosby -
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
‐‐ Alexander Pope -
A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.
‐‐ Shashi Tharoor -
A witty saying proves nothing.
‐‐ Voltaire -
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
‐‐ George Meredith -
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
‐‐ Raj Kapoor -
A woman always remembers. Remember that.
‐‐ Magic Johnson -
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
‐‐ Geena Davis -
A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
‐‐ Barbara Cartland -
A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.
‐‐ Gina Lollobrigida -
A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.'
‐‐ Les Wexner -
A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.
‐‐ Meriwether Lewis -
A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, 'You're one of the most interesting people I've ever met,' and I was like, 'Wow.'
‐‐ Zac Efron -
A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.
‐‐ Jill Clayburgh
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