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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Battle
Win
More
Join
Than
Thinks
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Anna Jameson
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Competition
Worthy
Only
Himself
In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
Baron Vaughn
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Better
Church
Thinking
Damn
Local
Cast
Could
Had
Knew
New
Course
New Mexico
Lines
Mexico
Role
Did
Stood
Wanted
Nativity
Much
Moment
Actor
Play
A wise man once said, 'Instead of crying, I keep on trying.' And that wise man is me, because I just made that up. I think.
Bobby Bones
Me
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Made
Think
Once
Instead
Crying
Because
Said
Up
Trying
Just
Keep
I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.
Chrysippus
Myself
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Own
Think
Does
Affairs
His
Little
Things
Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
Dan Jenkins
Art
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Evil
Dreaded
Putting
Said
Ever
Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
James Stephens
Nature
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Fool
Natural
Will
Healthy
Every
Unnecessary
Him
Himself
Knows
Reduce
Quickly
Labour
Any
Again
Wash
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
John B. S. Haldane
Religion
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Science
Statements
Both
Fact
He
Ultimate
His
Conduct
Regards
Theories
Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
Karl G. Maeser
You
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Living
Ideal
Make
Within
Your
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin Yutang
Life
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Books
Both
Reads
Itself
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Truth
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Trust
Edge
Would
Well
Himself
Narrow
Falsehood
Near
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
Michael Leunig
Me
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Father
Own
Way
My Own
Smiling
Knows
Boy
His
Dad
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel de Montaigne
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Ought
Sees
He
Much
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Will
Live
Wit
Within
His
Much
Income
When I married Munna, people didn't give our marriage even two months to survive. But we lasted for 12 years. The first 10 were magical. He's a fair man, a wise man.
Pooja Bhatt
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Marriage
People
First
Lasted
Our
Months
Married
Magical
Give
He
Fair
Were
Years
Survive
To Survive
Even
Two
Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.
Saint Bernard
You
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Wish
Every
Virtue
Way
Abide
Only
Outside
Bounds
Safe
Safe Way
Exile
Moderation
Mid
Middle
Place
Mean
Keep
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Ambition
Aim
Favour
Exalted
Him
His
Itself
Cured
Office
Cannot
Riches
Fortune
Satisfy
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
Samuel Smiles
Wise
Man
Peace
Wise Man
Will
Live
Others
Would
Bear
He
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
Saskya Pandita
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Overcome
Enemies
Single
Action
Foes
Host
He
Single Man
How
His
Behaves
Even
Right
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
Solomon Burke
Beautiful
Time
Great
Wise
Man
Wise Man
President
Say
Nixon
Still
Very
Choice
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
Good
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Turns
Fortune
Good Fortune
Chance
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas Fuller
Travel
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Fool
Better
Worse
Makes
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Old
Does
Grow
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Will Durant
History
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Money
Will
Know
Hoard
Bankers
Thing
Last
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
William Inge
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Value
Relative
He
Knows
Who
Things
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
William Penn
Knowledge
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Treasure
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