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When I was one-and-twenty,
I heard a wise man say,
Give pounds and crowns and guineas,
But not your heart away."

Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

A.E. Houseman

[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
French novelist (1873 - 1954)

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
Scottish author & biographer (1740 - 1795)

He was a wise man who invented God.

Plato
Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

William Arthur Ward

When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

H. Allen Smith

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift
Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745)

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Robertson Davies

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats
Irish dramatist & poet (1865 - 1939)

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

Homer, The Odyssey
Greek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC)

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Hippocrates, Regimen in Health
Greek physician (460 BC - 377 BC)

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus
Roman comic dramatist (254 BC - 184 BC)

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
Roman orator & politician (234 BC - 149 BC)

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
Roman rhetorician

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Plutarch, Morals
Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD)

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