Quotes About Wisdom

Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.

Books and friends should be few but good.

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

My philosophy is: anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you.

A word of advice don't give it.

Act your age, not your shoe size.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.