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wise words-of-wisdom godmother
This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? Charles Dickens
wise men may
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. Charles Caleb Colton
wise money thinking
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
wise light fire
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.
wise art moments
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise heart wine
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
wise foolish gravity
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
wise men thinking
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
wise men littles
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.
wisdom expectations looks
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
wisdom knowledge literature
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
wisdom intelligence literature
Mystery is not profoundness.
wisdom next profit
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
wisdom believe errors
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
wisdom perfection
Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.
wisdom character
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
wisdom ifs
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
wisdom age next
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. Charles Simmons
funeral littles pay
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
funeral denmark-in-hamlet hamlet-and-ophelia
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. William Shakespeare
funeral atheism body
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral. Charles Bradlaugh
funeral sure
We want to make sure they can't do this at the funeral of a hero. Marilyn Miller
funeral would-be why-not
You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral. Charles Bukowski
funeral harbor miss needs nobody priesthood spectacle state
The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing. Eugene Kennedy
funeral last-words contests
I foresee a great funeral contest over me. Alexander the Great
funeral may host
We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals? Amy Poehler
funeral trying four
I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was. Dwight L. Moody