The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“There be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.” — Lee Goff Copy Share Image
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
“Wise men are only wise because they make their priority the seeking of Christ.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“These, then, are the wise men, the lights of the world. Alas, alas! I had hoped for other things; here, as peasants… — Ioannes Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
“By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. It leads not… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity - I admire wise men. Some of my favorite forms of history are religious history, what the sages… — Keith Thurman Copy Share Image
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason why I wear gold - I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
“Truly wise men called on each element alike to minister to their joy, and while the touch of sun-bathed air, the fragrance… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous,… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
“There are many men who deserve to die, but they live. I can’t see the end, the purpose. Even wise men can’t.… — Cate Campbell Beatty Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Who indeed knows the secret of the earthly pilgrimage? Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Who knows what… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Plato taught us that, “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” The sages… — Bohdi Sanders Copy Share Image
You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“In the first ages they were wise men; in the middle age, madmen; in these latter ages, cunning men: in the earliest… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“And it did certainly appear that the prophets had put the people (engaged in the old game of Cheat the Prophet) in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but… — Sylvester Graham Copy Share Image
“You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Did you hear about the middle Eastern potentate?" he asked me. "This potentate called a meeting of the wise men in the… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
