Wisdom Quotes

Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.

William Blake

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

George Santayana

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

Sonya Friedman

Never explain - your friends don`t need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

It's easy to be wise after the event.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

Dan Mckinnon

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Myrtle Auvil

Even a fool knows you can`t touch the stars, but it won`t keep the wise from trying.

Harry Anderson

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Theodor W. Adorno

What goes up must come down.

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

Finley Peter Dunne

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Henry James

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Emily Dickinson