Search for the secret stairs of the wise men; when you find them, lose no time to start ascending! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
“What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.” — Lord Melbourne Copy Share Image
“The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is a great man of wisdom who understands, his top… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
“The cunning waste their pains; The wise men vex their brains; But the simpleton, who seeks no gains, With belly full, he… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“Great men die and are forgotten, Wise men speak; their words of wisdom Perish in the ears that hear them, Do not… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Luke, shepherds go to find Jesus. In Matthew, an unspecified number of wise men, sometimes portrayed as kings, arrive. Nativity plays… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things… — Mark Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“Whatever can be known of earth we know, Sneered Europe's wise men, in their snail shells curled; No! said one man in… — Mildred Stapley Byne 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
“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
“He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look… — Howard Phillips Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Six Wisemen came to Jhaampe-town Climbed a hill, and never came down Found their flesh and lost their skins Flew away on… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which,… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
“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
