Quotes About Wisdom

Il peggio è spesso la verità.

Recuerde que en esta vida las cosas no son tan bonitas como parecen a primera vista.

Os tolos compram coisas que morrem nas primeiras geadas e aí desejam ter ficado com os girassóis e os bem-me-queres!

Bueno, debe ser que el amor no logra adueñarse de nosotros hasta que tenemos cierta edad.

Old sins have long shadows," quoted Poirot. "As we advance through life, we learn the truth of that saying.

Women can be fools in ninety-nine different ways but be pretty shrewd in the hundredth.

Date troppo corda alla fantasia. La fantasia è un'ottima serva, ma una pessima padrona. La spiegazione più semplice quasi sempre si rivela esatta.

The thing people don't seem to want anywhere, nowadays," said Bob, "is anyone who's got a bit of common sense. I've never been a brainy chap?well, you know that well enough, Ali?but I often think that that's what the world really needs?just a bit of common sense.

you've been listening to the doctors. Never should. What do they know? Nothing at all--or just enough to make them dangerous.

Cuántas veces no habré oído decir a una mujer inteligente a más no poder: "Edgardo dice...", como quien cita a una autoridad incontrovertible. Y eso cuando todo el mundo sabe que Edgardo es un perfecto idiota.

He's pretty old. Probably more or less ga ga.

What beats me—it always does—is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

Muitas pessoas não me parecem nem boas, nem más, mas apenas bastante tolas, sabe?

Of course I could give you advice, Jean, though I don't know why anyone ever wants advice. They never take it.

He's a zealous fellow, but zeal can't really take the place of brains.

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Le des tin des abstractions est de s'accrocher à vous un instant puis de disparaître. Seuls les mots qui sont des images demeurent. Le reste est un brin de paille. Pourtant il me fallut des années pour me libérer des érudits, de leur tutelle, de leur sourire supérieur, et revenir à mes amis fidèles qui savaient qu'un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une pelote de faiblesses et de peurs.

Tutti cercavano di nascondere al nonno le sue condizioni e la situazione che ci circondava. Il nonno sapeva tutto, ma non permetteva che la confusione ed il caos lo sommergessero. Parlava della morte come usava parlare prima di ogni lngo viaggio. (...) Andavo a trovarlo una volta al giorno. (...) Una volta mi raccontò una parabola che non riuscii a capire; lui parve accorgersene e disse: "Non fa niente, l'importante è amare questa mattinata".

Keep watch over your mouth, lest it bring you to grief.

Youth is in the heart and age is just a number

Seek knowledge even if it's in MACS0647-JD.