Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent law of laws.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
''If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.''
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.