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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.
madmen
He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen. Alexandre Dumas
madmen autobiography
History is the autobiography of a madman. Alexander Herzen
madmen run saint self worst zeal
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Alexander Pope
madmen jackets sane
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket. Edgar Allan Poe
madmen
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo Jean Cocteau
madmen
Every madman considers everyone else a madman. Publilius Syrus
madmen has-beens
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? Samuel Richardson
madmen pursue impossibility
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities . Marcus Aurelius
miscellaneous eloquence
True eloquence forgoes eloquence. Andre Gide
miscellaneous
Whatever come we have to meet it. Eleanor Roosevelt
miscellaneous resisting
We understand nature by resisting it. Gaston Bachelard
miscellaneous ifs dies
If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship. Rajneesh
miscellaneous ifs
If a thing goes without saying -- let it. Jacob Braude