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

There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them. — Christian Nestell Bovee

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so. — Henry Fielding

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. — Thomas A Kempis

But he could not help wondering, as he did, that if he was so damn wise, why was his life in such a mess? — Margaret Weis

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
[Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.] — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man. — Maria McCann

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. — Joseph Addison

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting ... We have not got half-way to dawn yet. — Henry David Thoreau

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
("The Wendigo") — Algernon Blackwood

As a vessel is known by its sound whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or foolish. — Demosthenes

He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so. — Publilius Syrus

If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can. — Michel De Montaigne

On the whole it's not wise to remind the devil that he's the devil, especially when we were getting on so well. — Philip Kerr

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. — Gautama Buddha

We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary. — Che Guevara

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men. — Thomas Fuller

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world. — Gautama Buddha

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary. — Plato

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it's not the work they're supposed to be doing. — K.J. Parker

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not. — Lord Chesterfield

There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do. — Edward Heath

Never does a person feel so wise, so mature and so adult as when she is not. — Pia Juul

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so. — Charles Caleb Colton

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex. — Franz Grillparzer

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself. — Havelock Ellis

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. — Mark Twain

God in his infinite wisdom
Did not make me very wise-
So when my actions are stupid
They hardly take God by surprise. — Langston Hughes

And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon. — Naomi Novik