Wise Man Quotes
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.
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A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ...the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.
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It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.
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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Money is the wise man's religion.
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The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
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If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.
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If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
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A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
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A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.
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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
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I call wise man who, while he is innocent , endures insults and blows with a patience equal to its strength.
