quotations
Search
   HOME | AUTHOR INDEX | SUBJECT INDEX | LINKS | USE OUR QUOTATIONS | CONTRIBUTE QUOTES | FORUM
Quotation of the day
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

rss 2.0
Subscribe
Unsubscribe
Send the Quote of the Day to a friend
Proverb of the Day
All that glitters is not gold.
Click here to see/listen to the equivalent proverb in:




Browse Quotations about Wisdom

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
A nation's treasure is its scholars.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
Action should culminate in wisdom.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.


Quote: 1-15 of 202 Pages: 1 of 14 next 
View all quotes
Sponsors



Copyright © 2006 WorldQuotations.com. All Rights Reserved.