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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.
If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.
To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.
The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.
If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.
The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.
The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.
Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
I'm going forward with my plans for life. I'm looking at things not only basketball-wise, but personal-wise.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.
He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.
One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
In most movies, they show you somebody who is perfect looks-wise, and skills-wise, and the movie doesn't give you a choice.
The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.
The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22
Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
O' youth do not disobey the words of the wise. Its better than fortune if the wise-one gives you advice.
The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.
History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.
They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.