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It's a hard man who's only just, and a sad man who's only wise. — Gregory Benford

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death. — Jacoby Shaddix

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking. — Benjamin Franklin

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow. — Josh Billings

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it. — Alex Haley

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets. — Saadi

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom. — Michel De Montaigne

A wise man's questions contain half the answer. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce

Kent. Who's there?
Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool. — William Shakespeare

Making some noise in the woods is a thing that one can forget. The sound of a man's voice on the other hand, is something else entirely. — Angelo Tsanatelis

A scholar's weapon is his pen;
a sage's weapon, his deeds. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I know O LORD, that a man's way is not in himself. That is not in a man who walks to direct his steps." Jeremiah 10:23 — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every man is defined by his deeds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's not wise to rely on a man's ability to remember anything. — Jeri Smith-Ready

A wise man once told me that you can't change what's happened but you can damn sure change what's yet to come. — Vicki Green

Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that. — Dan Jenkins

Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

A wise man rules his passions, fool obeys them. — Publilius Syrus

Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. — William Golding

It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't. — Steven Conrad

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. — George Eliot

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father. — Michael Leunig

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk. — Euripides

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'. — Robert Browning

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. — Robert Southey

A sage's mind is a storeroom of great riches. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

A wise man's questions surpass the answers of the fool, but the silence of the enlightened is divine. Meditation is the key. — J. Gabriel Gates

Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own. — Zadie Smith

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need. — Thales

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He who despises a poor man's wisdom has turned away great riches. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It is not wise to notice another man's woman. — James Clavell

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly. — Euripides

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom) — Edith Hamilton

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool. — Diogenes

My Alar is like the ocean in a storm. — Patrick Rothfuss

For to be wise and love exceeds man's might. — William Shakespeare

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born. — King Solomon

No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics. — A Gentlemen

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next
if not a damn sight better. — Edward Abbey

A wise man's question contains half the answer. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Consider a man's good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more. — Thiruvalluvar

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know ... — Richard Wagner

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for. — Robin Williams

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you. — Shel Silverstein

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical. — Giacomo Leopardi

A wise man once said that the opposite of being alive is being boring, so for God's sake, don't be boring ! — Cameron Jace

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice. — Laozi

If whatever you're going to do is wrong, you might as well do whatever you want. — Patrick Rothfuss

The wise man's home is the universe. — Democritus

A wise man's sorrow is better than a fool's happiness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it. — Nora Roberts

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out. — Wilkie Collins

That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs. — Jimmy Hill

Wise man's mind is always very clear. When asked anything, he gives the answer directly almost without any thinking! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The next time you exit a relationship; remember to take your heart with you. It's kind of hard for the next man to get what the last man still has. — Trinity Wise

Rather know nothing than half-know many things! Rather be a fool on one's own account than a wise man in the opinion of others! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast. — Chinua Achebe

A wise man always has something to say, whereas a fool always needs to say something. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

There's an old Cheyenne saying about how, when a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove. — Larissa Ione

But you are wise,
Or else you love not, for to be wise and love
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above. — William Shakespeare

A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left. — Solomon

The difference between a wise man and a fool is a wise man learns his lessons from other people's mistakes and a fool only learns from his own. — Duane "Dog" Chapman

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. — Michel De Montaigne

My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi) — Patrick Rothfuss

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell. Thomas Fuller — Jessica Shirvington

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege. — Victor Hugo

And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good. — A.E. Housman

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,
The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. — Thomas Otway

Money is the wise man's religion. — Euripides

Keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man. — Cindy McCain

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order. — Napoleon Hill

A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma. — Keshia Chante

the wise man needs nothing and yet he can make good use of anything, whereas the fool 'needs' countless things but can make good use of none of them. — Donald J. Robertson

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them. — Hans Christian Andersen

Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies. — Bhartrhari

A wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,' — Michael Stipe

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 wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful. — Criss Jami

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of
his mind. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads." — Al Yankovic

It's a wise man who isn't afraid to make a fool of himself every now and then. — Benita J. Prins

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world. — Chris Kattan

It's a wise man who kens the limits of his knowledge, Ian. — Diana Gabaldon

The superior man leads not by violence or by coarse physical acts but by the pure intelligence of a wise mind. — Pearl S. Buck

If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around. — Finley Peter Dunne

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven. — Alec Waugh

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. — C.S. Lewis

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell. — Thomas Fuller

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave. — Leif Enger

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. — Doris Lessing

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender it - this was the wise saying of Sir Thomas Browne. — A.S. Byatt

A wise man nourishes his soul each morning with the word of God and enriches his day with God's wisdom. Psalm 19:7. — Felix Wantang

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. — Billy Crystal

A wise man once told me, Life's greatest fear is having knowledge of something, and dying before having the opportunity to share it." -Charles Blair — Charles Blair

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance. — Chanakya