Affair Quote by Benjamin Graham

“What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”

— Lord Melbourne

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

— John Ruskin

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs…

— Edmund Burke

“... wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Great men die and are forgotten, Wise men speak; their words of wisdom Perish in the ears that hear them, Do not reach the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.

— Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

“The wise men know what wicked things are written on the sky; They trim sad lamps, they touch sad strings, hearing the heavy purple…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Even the wisdom of the wisest depends on the accumulated wisdom of the past!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we…

— Francis Bacon

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

— Mohlatsane Qelemotse