Instance Quote by Jane Austen

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

— Jane Austen

Be merry if you are wise.

— Martial

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

— Henry David Thoreau

Better to be happy than wise.

— John Heywood

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

— Paulo Coelho

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

— William Shakespeare

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

— Anonymous

Fools say sorry wise men will prove they are sorry.

— Humaira

The wisest of the wise may err.

— Aeschylus

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

— Francis Bacon

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

— Michael Reed

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson