Quotes About Wisdom

If it weren't for death, life would be unbearable.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to do is to know when to die. Prolonged life has ruined more men than it ever made.

Borrowing is the mother of trouble.

Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.

But let not our thoughts be only of happiness. For does not the old Arab proverb — "all sunshine makes a desert" — faithfully remind us that the cloud and the storm are likewise needed for the most complete and satisfactory results?

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man...

Don't argue with an 18-wheeler.

Well, son, it's this way — unfortunately, increasin' th' hoss power don't increase th' hoss sense any.

The wise man keeps on good terms with his wife, his conscience, and his stomach.

The belly rules the mind.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

People often say to a boy when he eats between meals: "It will spoil your dinner." But, piecing between meals never spoils your meals until after you pass forty.

Despise school and remain a fool.

Nothing is as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated on.

Before God we are relatively all equally wise — equally foolish.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

Experience makes more timid men than it duz wise ones.

The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived — forwards.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.