May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.
COINS are for LAZY PEOPLE to DECIDE and for WISE MEN to INVEST.
For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.
Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
Only wise men look for new wisdom.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear. Otherwise you will be wise historically, a fool in pr...
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that may not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things...
Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.
