Wisdom Quotes

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

"The only tragedy in life is to get what you want."

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"It is what you are that matters, not what you look like."

"The thing one most wants to do is the very thing that is probably wrong."

"Vanity and pride are different things."

"A person may be proud without being arrogant."

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

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast."

"There is a nobleness in knowing one's place and serving it well."

"I have learned to trust my own judgment over that of others."

"The true greatness lies not in wealth, but in character."

"There is a certain majesty about misery."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"Let me not be hasty in my judgment."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously."

"If I could but teach the men to know their own minds."

"The great God Almighty made us all, but you made yourself worth nothing."

"He's a bird of bad omen; no love between you and him, I'm sure."

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

"Nay, nay, Isabella! Has not he made you a pretty mess already?"

"There is a secret understanding among all who have truly lived"

"The heart knows truths that the mind cannot comprehend"

"I pity thee, for the good that has been wasted"

"Temptation hath been beforehand with us"