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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.
fool guides
He who is his own guide is guided by a fool. Charles Spurgeon
fool cry-the-beloved-country quiet
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools. Alan Paton
fool
And thus love makes fools of us all. Chris Cleave
foolish young impress
Power always impresses the young and foolish. Darren Shan
fool peculiar bad-mood
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. David D. Burns
fool emotion aim
My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion. Casey Affleck
fool
Wishers were ever fools. William Shakespeare
fool slave life-time
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.
fool slander rail
There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
vain
I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based. Mel Gibson
vain
One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
vain elsewhere repose
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere. Hosea Ballou
vain cradle graves
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. Horace
vain
Who talks much, must talk in vain. John Gay
vain stairs ask-me
To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again. Mary Howitt
vain made
Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it. Mark Twain
vain profanity betray
Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker. Philip Sidney
vain let-me
Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain. Joseph Addison