Wise Quotes - Page 40

• Be merry if you are wise.

  Martial

  Merry, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 511-12, Epigrams, II. 41. 1, 1922.

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• Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.

  Laozi

  Danger, Traveler

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• A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

  Thomas Browne

  Wisdom, Men, Fortune

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.345

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• For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Madmen, Miscellaneous, Died

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1848). “Don Quixote”, p.424

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• Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Men, Views, Enemy

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• We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.

  Philip Gulley

  Wisdom, Courage, Hate

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• Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mind, Care, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.47

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• Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Philosophy, Future

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• Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.

  Saadi

  Men, Comfort, Riches

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.147, Innovations and Information

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• The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Eye, Men

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• Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Eye, College, What Matters

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• Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Lady Macbeth, Neutrality

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.867, Wordsworth Editions

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• The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Tents, Beacons

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wisdom, Pride, Soul

  Eric Hoffer (1979). “Before the Sabbath”, Harpercollins

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• We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Faith, Flower, Fall

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• Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Traitor, Should

  "Orationes In Verrem", II. 1. 15, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 811-12,

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• Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, History, Perfect

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations”, p.6

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• He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Teaching, Virtuous

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.237

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• Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, Deny, Providence

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.277, Oxford University Press

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• Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

  Og Mandino

  Men, Satisfaction, Fool

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope”, p.149, Bantam

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• You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

  O. Henry

  New York, Ocean, Thinking

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 552-553), 1922.

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• The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

  Edmund Burke

  Moments, Foolish, Individual

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.398, Transaction Publishers

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• Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

  Homer

  Wine, Laughing, Silent

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• The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

  Philip James Bailey

  Ignorance, Errors, Fool

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.73

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