The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

Sometimes I wish my first word was ‚quote,‘ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‚end quote.‘

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.