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Wise Quotes - Page 22

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

'The Economic Consequences of the Peace' (1919) ch. 3 (on Woodrow Wilson)

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.15, Vintage

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge”, p.131