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01c. 1810 AD

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

William Wordsworth / quote

02c. 1810 AD

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

William Wordsworth / quote

03c. 1810 AD

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

William Wordsworth / quote

04c. 1810 AD

Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

William Wordsworth / quote

05c. 1806 AD

Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

Lord Byron / quote

06c. 1807 AD

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote

07c. 909 AD

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.

Sir Henry Taylor / quote

08c. 1830 AD

He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

Douglas Jerrold / quote

09c. 1839 AD

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,—"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

Edward Bulwer Lytton / quote

10c. 1809 AD

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

11c. 1809 AD

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

12c. 1851 AD

That 's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture.

Robert Browning / quote

13c. 1855 AD

A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

James Russell Lowell / quote

14c. 1852 AD

'T is well to be merry and wise, 'T is well to be honest and true; 'T is well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

15In print by 1905 AD

Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,—they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.

Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote

16c. 720 BC

For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus.

Hesiod / quote

17c. 491 BC

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

Æschylus / quote

18c. 451 BC

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles / quote

19c. 451 BC

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

Sophocles / quote

20c. 219 BC

Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired.

Plautus / quote

21c. 219 BC

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

Plautus / quote

22c. 172 BC

Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!

Terence / quote

23c. 172 BC

This is a wise maxim, "to take warning from others of what may be to your own advantage."

Terence / quote

24c. 37 BC

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

Horace / quote