(968 quotes found)
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest”
Bible
“There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.”
William Shakespeare
“It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“He that is rich is wise”
Daniel Defoe
“To be wise and love exceeds man's might.”
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart”
Benjamin Franklin
“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self”
William Penn
“Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.)”
Geoffrey Chaucer
“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”
Compton MacKenzie Sr.
