Quotes of: Worldly Keyword

Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action,...

Ethics

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Francis Quarles

Worldly prosperity is like writing on water.

Indian

Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Be first the master of yourself

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

Van Wyck Brooks

The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Of no worldly good can the joy be perfect, unless it is shared by a friend.

Latin

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

The most and best of us depend on others; we have to live either among friends or among enemies.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

Leslie Caron

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

If socialism failed, it was for political, more than economic, reasons; and if capitalism is to succeed it will be because it finds the political will and means to tame its economic forces.

The Worldly Philosophers

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

George Eliot