Quotes About Wisdom

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For youth is bought more oft than begged or borrowed.

All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; there is no virtue like necessity.

Knock... and ask your heart what it doth know.

Hay más cosas en el cielo y en la Tierra, Horacio, de las que contempla tu filosofía.

Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him. Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool.

Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor so old to dote on her for anything. I have years on my back forty- eight.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

You gotta be cruel to be kind.

youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.

With purpose to be dressed in an opinion of wisdom gravity profound conceit as who should say 'I am Sir Oracle and when I ope my lips let no dog bark.' 1.1

The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason. King Lear: Because they are not eight? Fool: Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

twould almost damn those ears; The author's meaning is this:—That some people are thought wise whilst they keep silence; who, when they open their mouths, are such stupid praters, that the hearers cannot help calling them fools, and so incur the judgment denounced in the Gospel.—THEOBALD.

Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool, Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.

I wear not motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.

Slanders, sir. For the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams—all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.

For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.

I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal. I saw him put down the other day with an 80   ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I take these wise men, that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better than the fools' zanies.

O, had the monster seen those lily hands Tremble like aspen leaves upon a lute And make the silken strings delight to kiss them, He would not then have touched them for his life

All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking.

The fiend gives the more friendly counsel.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.