Quotes with lip-wisdom

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  • Elbert Hubbard The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bobbi Brown The most versatile lipstick you can own is a shade that's just a bit brighter than your natural lip color.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Honoré de Balzac The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Eugene O'Neill The old, like children, talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Socrates The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bayard Taylor The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • William Blake The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Albert Einstein The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Piet Hein The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.
    Piet Hein
     
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  • Benjamin Graham The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
    Source: World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. V, Stabilization of Raw Materials, p. 56
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Milan Kundera The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Kahlil Gibran The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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