Wise Quotes - Page 195

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.

Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

Pleasing ware is half sold.

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]

None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.

If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]

Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.

The least foolish is wise.

The wind in ones face makes one wise.

One flower makes no garland.

The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

Though old and wise, yet still advise.

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.

A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now.

The third major characteristic of God - "infinitude" - is the catchall, the universal modifier of Christian theology. God is not merely a being; he is infinite being. God is not merely good; he is infinite goodness. God is not merely wise; he is infinite wisdom. And so on down the list. God is exaggeration run amuck.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.