Quotes About Wisdom

The French have a saying – is it the French? I don't know, I believe so – there is a saying that you do not put a boiling kettle upon the fire. You put cold water in the kettle and allow it to warm. So with marriage.

Perhaps you're right; we don't ever regain what we lightly lose.

How old are you?" "Thirteen…sur." It was the first time she had sirred him. He might have known that these undersized, half-starved waifs were always older than they looked.

Demelza said: 'It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.

With age one never looked far ahead. The marathon horizons of youth narrowed and shortened into hurdles of age.

Uno sciocco dignitoso, Demelza, non ottiene niente, mentre il farabutto dai toni melliflui sì.

Tedn sense, tedn reasonable, tedn right, tedn proper, tedn true!

Far better now if he had never known. The knowledge served no purpose but to destroy what was left of his peace of mind.

life holds only two or three things worth the having, and if you possess them the rest don't matter, and if you do not possess them the rest are useless.

I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over thirty who is not a conservative has no brains.