Sep 28, 2012

Wise Quotes About Life

Wise Quotes About Life

“Behind every action is a reason; in front of every action is a consequence.”
- Christopher Febvre

 “I've learned that people will forget what you said, 
  people will forget what you did,
 but people will never forget how you made them feel.” 
 -Maya Angelou quotes

"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."
- La Rochef Oucauld

"Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud."
- English proverb

"It is the nature of man to err, of a fool to persevere in error."
- Franklin

"Poverty wants some things, luxury many, avarice all things."
- H.G. Wells

"Life is measured by thought and action, not by time."
- Avebury

"Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise."
- Gray

"Virtue does not spring from riches, and all other human blessings,
 both private and public, from virtue." 
- Plato

"A smile is thing you can always wear without being old-fashioned."
- Bulwer Lytton

"Think like a wise man, but express yourself like the common people."
- Yeats

"Want a thing long enough and you don't."
- Unknow Author

"Knowledge is precious to us, because we shall never have time 
to complete it."
- Rabindranath Tagore

"Speech is given to all, wisdom to few."

"The race is not always to the swiftest."

"Rank and office are not always identical."

"Strike while the iron is hot."

"The clever but honest man is rare."

"A good example is the best sermon."

"He that is full of self is very empty."

"Beware of none more than self."

"Prettiness of style  can sometimes be irritating."

"False modesty is an odiuos form of pertence."

"When you know you are wrong, first admit it, then repair it."

"You cannot expect a high standard of morality in the 
common run of men." 

"Knowledge is power."

"Don't listen to rumour."

"To suffer and die is the lot of man."


   






 
 
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