Funny Quotes About Wisdom

"What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice."
        — Demosthenes

"Time is the image of eternity."
        — Laertius Diogenes

"Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed."
        — Amanda Cross

"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."
        — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You're fooling yourself if you argue with a fool - others may not know the difference.
        — Robert Paul

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
        — Samuel Palmer

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
        — Benjamin Franklin

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.
        — Steven Wright

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
        — Mae West

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
        — Marty Feldman

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
        — Mark Twain

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
        — Josh Billings

Never pass up an opportunity to keep your mouth shut.
        — Paul Miller

Words of Wisdom:

  • Drink without thirst and love throughout time is all that distinguishes man from beast.
  • There are three types of people: those who are worried to death, they work to death and who are bored to death.
  • There are words that should be used only once.
  • Each is a hymn to be destroyed.
  • There are many people that when you have to do something, do something, if not exactly what he has done.
  • We should be careful not to ask a classmate who just tried to help you.
  • The man is an omnivore who wears pants.
  • At the table no one gets bored during the first hour.
  • Such is man, that great and true amphibian whose nature can live in separate worlds and heterogeneous.
  • Human nature is evil. His goodness is acquired culture.
  • A mother always forgives: the world has come to this.
  • Men live by forgetting the women, memories.
  • Never do that so you do not want to be known.
  • We are so different with men as with the pictures, which always try to give a favorable light.
  • The man is a piece of the universe come to life.
  • A rare word is on a page as a stone erected in a street.
  • When arms are needed, relief in words does not help.
  • You tend to put words where lacking ideas.
  • How well that is said quickly.
  • Awake men have only one world, but the sleeping men each have their world.
  • Men are but instruments of the genius of the universe.
  • Only where there is no world language.
  • Only worth the words. The rest is humbug.