Quotes About Wisdom

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

Patch grief with proverbs; make misfortune drunk...

Journeys end in lovers meeting,Every wise man's son doth know.

BewareOf entrance to a quarrel, but, being in,Bear 't that th' opposed may beware of thee.Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

An honour! were not I thine only nurse, I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat

The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

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

Young in limbs, in judgment old.

As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, "That, that is, is."

I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.

Keep a good tongue in your head.

William Shakespeare

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

All places that the eye of heaven visitsAre to a wise man ports and happy havens.Teach thy necessity to reason thus;There is no virtue like necessity.Think not the king did banish thee,But thou the king.

Patch griefs with proverbs.

How long a time lies in one little word!

I do know of these,That therefore only are reputed wiseFor saying nothing.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,With windlasses and with assays of bias,By indirections find directions out.

Hang up philosophy!Unless philosophy can make a Juliet.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!