Quotes 381 till 400 of 409.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
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Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
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With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
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With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
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You talk no more of that gay nation now,
Where men adore their wives, and woman's power
Draws reverence from a polished people's softness,
Their husbands' equals, and their lovers' queens;
Free without scandal; wise without restraint;
Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.Zara (1735) Act I, Sc. 1. -
You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
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You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
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Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.
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