Wisdom Quotes

"It ought not to be necessary to say what ought to be obvious."

"Some people are so foolish, I cannot bear to talk to them."

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."

"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy."

"How despicably I have acted! I, who have prided myself on my discernment!"

"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion."

"Vanity and pride are different things."

"I am not romantic, you see. I ask only a comfortable home."

"I am afraid I am not quite of your opinion. I think that youth is the time to go fluttering about one stalk and then settle."

"Whatever I have been, there is a time and a place for all things."

"I have learned that expectations are often the parents of disappointment."

"Bitterness is a poison that destroys the vessel that holds it."

"There is no shame in returning to where you began, humbled and wise."

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian"

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness"

"Madness is to be alive and to see"

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws."

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a draught to go down."

"Rules and systems are all very well for common days."

"Better to seek the truth than to remain in pleasant ignorance."

"Hadst thou sought vengeance, it had not been better for thy soul."

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

"Misery drove him to moral degradation."

"Vengeance is a weed that grows on every soil."

"Sorrow makes us wise."

"The world is a hard place to live in."

"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence."

"I have learned to value what truly matters."

"I can resist everything except temptation."