A Quote by Publilius Syrus
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
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On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.
A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield greater benefit.
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.
Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.
I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered.
History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.
And others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches,
And most, of sterling worth, is what
Our own experience preaches.
All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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