Quotes About Wisdom

Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories, and love.

One Swallow maketh not Summer; nor one Woodcock a Winter.

Willful waste brings woeful want.

Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

Confucius say: Man who put face in bowl get punch in nose.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.

Never trust anyone whose television is larger than their bookshelf.

...the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS...

You must finish... every day, & be done with it. For manners, & for wise living, it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could — some blunders & absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as fast as you can tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good & fair. It is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

Kindness is the greatest wisdom.

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.

25th Anniversary. — Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

We all have fog on our path at times — but clarity comes from within.

The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world.

New is something old that has been long forgotten.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

He who physics himself poisons a fool.

By chase our long-lived fathers earn'd their food, Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood; But we, their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend: God never made his work for man to mend.

A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.

No doctor is better than three.

A disease known is half cured.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.