Quotes About Wisdom

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.

It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.

They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

Since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th' ignorant More learned than the ears.

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know;

My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, To say as I said then! But, come, away; Get me ink and paper: He shall have every day a several greeting, Or I'll unpeople Egypt.

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits? Malvolio: Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art. Feste: But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves...

A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.