- All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.~ Winston Churchill
- Be sure to have a controversial opinion, and men will talk about you.~
Arabian Proverb
- Beauty doesn’t exist, men only dream it.~ Arabian Proverb
- Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.~ Theodor Reik
- Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.~ Scottish Proverb
- Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.~ H.G. Wells
- Great men are not always wise.~ The Holy Bible
- He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.~ The Holy Bible
- It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.~ Spanish Proverb
- It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Men laugh with their heart, women only with their mouth.~ Arabian Proverb
- Men learn little from success, but much from failure.~ Arabian Proverb
- Men must sew up tears with gentleness.~ Arabian Proverb
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.~ George Bernard Shaw
- Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.~ Ibn Gabirol
- Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.~ R. I. Fitzhenry
- To write well, express yourself like common people but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.~ Aristotle
- Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What wise men suppose is worth more than the certainties of fools.~ Arabian Proverb
- When trouble comes, weak men take to the woods; wise men take to their work.~ Author Unknown
- Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.~ Benjamin Franklin
- Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.~ Author Unknown
- Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.~ Anacharsis
- Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Wise men are instructed in reason men of less understanding by experience; The most unknowing learn by necessity. Wise men do in the beginning what fools in the end.~ Author Unknown
- Wise men do not quarrel with each other.~ Danish Proverb
- Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.~ Cato The Elder
- Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.~ Plato
- Wise men learn many things from their enemies.~ Aristophanes
- Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.~ William Shakespeare
- When a hundred men call a wise man a fool, then he becomes a fool.~ Albanian Proverb
- Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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