Quotes About Wisdom

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

We must master our good fortune or it will master us.

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

We will never obtain God's kind of marriage simply by going along with the crowd, doing what everybody else does. We have to dig deep into the heart of God to discover His principles.

The deep of your maturity determines the height of your marriage.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.