Quotes with penny-wise

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  • Andrew Johnson Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Samuel Johnson Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buddha Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not benefit me. Even by the falling of waterdrops a water-pot is filled; the wise man becomes full of good, even if he gather it little by little.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Buddha Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Washington Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is a festival only to the wise.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Omar Khayyam Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Sir William Osler Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Plato Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • John Dryden Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Winston Churchill Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alexander Pope Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Publilius Syrus Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • A. Owen Penny Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.
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