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Love is your master, for he masters you;
And he that is so yoked by a fool,
Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise. — William Shakespeare
And he that is so yoked by a fool,
Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise. — William Shakespeare
There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
— Henry Fielding
But he could not help wondering, as he did, that if he was so damn wise, why was his life in such a mess?
— Margaret Weis
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
[Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.] — Francois De La Rochefoucauld
[Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.] — Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.
— Maria McCann
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
— Joseph Addison
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting ... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.
— Henry David Thoreau
It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
("The Wendigo") — Algernon Blackwood
("The Wendigo") — Algernon Blackwood
As a vessel is known by its sound whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or foolish.
— Demosthenes
He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.
— Publilius Syrus
If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.
— Michel De Montaigne
On the whole it's not wise to remind the devil that he's the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.
— Philip Kerr
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
— Gautama Buddha
We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.
— Che Guevara
Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
— Thomas Fuller
As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
— Gautama Buddha
The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
— Plato
A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it's not the work they're supposed to be doing.
— K.J. Parker
A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.
— Lord Chesterfield
There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.
— Edward Heath
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
— Franz Grillparzer
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
— Havelock Ellis