Quotes About Wisdom

When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

Anger is a bad counselor.

If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

The world is governed more by appearance than reality, and therefore it is fully as necessary to seem to know something, as to know it in reality.

A man and his art are like a fool and his king.

...for so a wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

Whatever is — is best.

What do I want to be when I grow up? Happy. I want to be happy. And useful, loved, loving, healthy, wise, free, strong.

You must have crossed the river before you may tell the crocodile it has bad breath.

Frazz: My ancestors said, "There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing." Caulfield: You told me it was no bad weather, just insufficient espresso. Frazz: That's what my descendants will say their ancestors said.

Sorrow and ill weather come unsent for.

Confucius say: "Baseball wrong — man with four balls cannot walk."

Beauty isn't so much a matter of mug as a question of thinks.

Beauty and folly are sisters.

Wine upon beer is very good cheer; beer upon wine consider with fear.

When ale is in, wit is out.

Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

But probably 2,000 years hence many beliefs of the wise of our day will have come to seem equally foolish. Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it," and then the speaker shifted to another tree farther off and reiterated his assertions, and his mate at a distance confirmed them; and now I heard a suppressed chuckle from a red squirrel that heard the last remark, but had kept silent and invisible all the while.

Often have I reckoned up on my birthday the increasing years — the feathers in the broad wing of time — and thought upon the sounding flights of youth...

May you live to be a hundred years With one extra year to repent.

The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read.

There is no thief worse than a bad book.

A book that is shut is but a block.