Quotes 421 till 440 of 483.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
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When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
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When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
One Minute Wisdom -
Where ignorance is bliss, 't is folly to be wise.
Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College -
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things?... Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910)
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