Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“What horrifying torture this poor man must have endured. Out of a wise man they have made a miserable bundle of flesh… — Rafik Schami Copy Share Image
Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?" Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...they are able to forgive themselves, as a wise man once said, for being human. That is knowing that life is hard… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But stratagems devised by a wise man can… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“When the glamour wears off, or merely works a bit thin, they think they have made a mistake, and that the real… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Let’s face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
“a wise man should always enter those paths trodden by great men, and imitate those who have been most excellent, so that… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Fanaticism is the opposite of love,’ I said, recalling one of Khaderbhai’s lectures. A wise man once told me—he’s a Muslim, by… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“The Empty Boat He who rules men lives in confusion; He who is ruled by men lives in sorrow. Yao therefore desired… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A wise man will take a woman's advice even if he doesn't understand it. — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
