Quotes of Reasonable - somelinesforyou

“ A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Mahfouz. ”

- Naguib Mahfouz

“ Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ”

- William Feather

“ It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively. ”

- Brian Koslow

“ Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it. ”

- Henry Ford

“ The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. ”

- Bible

“ It is impossible to love and be wise. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ It is a wise father that knows his own child. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. ”

- Bible

“ So wise so young, they say, do never live long. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is not wise to be wiser than necessary. ”

- Philippe Quinault

“ I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ The wise learn many things from their enemies. ”

- Aristophanes

“ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. ”

- William Ellery Channing

“ Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ”

- Thomas Gray

“ It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be, Incubu? ”

- H. Rider Haggard

“ Some men are wise, and some are otherwise. ”

- Tobias G. Smollett

“ Better to be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. ”

- Aesop

“ To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it. ”

- Pooh’s Little Instruction Book

“ Fools give you reasons, wise men never try. ”

- Oscar Hammerstein

“ I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink. ”

- Dame Edith Sitwell

“ There's little comfort in the wise. ”

- Rupert Brooke
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