A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. - Bill Cosby stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE - Stephen King A word to the wise is infuriating. - Hunter S Thompson Word to the wise writer...never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them...they sneak off with stuff. - Ka Hancock A word to the wise is enough. - Plautus A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. - James Thurber

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. - Lord Acton A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. - Arthur Ashe The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal. - Marvin J Ashton Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. - Diogenes Of Sinope The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. - Jean De La Bruyere A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. - Albert Einstein Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge. - Confucius Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to us...

The truth is, part of me is every age. I'm a three-year-old, I'm a five-year-old, I'm a thirty-seven-year-old, I'm a fifty-year-old. I've been through all of them, and I know what it's like. I delight in being a child when it's appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it's appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own. - Mitch Albom I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man's puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one. - Robertson Davies Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man. - Robertson Davies Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind. - ...

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. - William Shakespeare The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out. - Wilkie Collins Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave. - Leif Enger Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task. - Epict...

Some wise guys came by my business establishment and tried to offer me neighborhood protection. They weren't mafia, but they were wearing togas. - Jarod Kintz Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere...including in branches of the U.S. government. - Sherry Morris We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. - William Arthur Ward

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' - John Abbott Not even the very wise can see all ends. - J R R Tolkien Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many. - J R R Tolkien Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. - J R R Tolkien A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past...

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise? - Mitch Albom I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit. - Louisa May Alcott Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. - Alan Alda Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. - Heraclitus It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. - David Herbert Lawrence It is impossible to love and to be wise. - Francis Bacon She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. - Jane Austen We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. - Oscar Wilde Smartass Disciple: Master, we should ...

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar - Mark Twain The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling. - Mark Twain Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. - Mark Twain All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced ...

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. - Henry David Thoreau I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate. - Catherine Fisher Some wise guys came by my business establishment and tried to offer me neighborhood protection. They weren't mafia, but they were wearing togas. - Jarod Kintz

Jane Greyson had once told me that my voice was one of the Ancientsold and wise. - Millicent Ashby You see yourself as if old and wise. I see you really miss your childhood. - Toba Beta He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race. - Alice Hoffman I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. - Glenda Jackson He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.. - T E Lawrence No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not. - Gregory Maguire I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human ...

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering. - Jane Austen For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear. - Leonhard Euler Bad dreams never come true. The both of them had been so young, that had sounded almost wise. - George R R Martin I'll not have an exchange with an impudent fool." [Oswald] He's not impudent," said Jones [the puppet]. "With proper inspiration, the lad sports a woody as stout as a mooring pin. Ask your lady." I nodded in agreement with the puppet, for he is most wise for having a brain of sawdust. Impudent! Impudent! Not impotent!" said Oswald, frothing a bit now. - Christopher Moore Agad bowed to the Fairy Queen. 'You are most wise, your majesty. Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The differ...

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have. - Plato Yesterday I was clever, That is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, That is why I am changing myself. - Sri Chinmoy When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'. - Epictetus Inventory: Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. - Dorothy Parker Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Toda...

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. - John Adams America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. - Kurt Vonnegut America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely ...

Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove! - Mark Twain Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. - Aeschylus Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. - Aesop Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. - Akhenaton How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise? - Mitch Albom I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit. - Louisa May Alcott Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. - Alan Alda Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. - Paul Engle In future, Clarissa,"...

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. - Bill Cosby stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE - Stephen King A word to the wise is infuriating. - Hunter S Thompson A word to the wise is enough. - Plautus A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. - James Thurber

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. - Heinrich Heine A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. - Lord Acton The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me. - Lee Child For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. - Aeschylus From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. - Publilius Syrus The truth is, part of me is every age. I'm a three-year-old, I'm a five-year-old, I'm a thirty-seven-year-old, I'm a fifty-year-old. I've been through all of them, and I know what it's like. I delight in being a child when it's appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it's appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own. - Mitch Albom One must be a wise reader to quote wis...