“By associating with wise people, you will become wise yourself.” -Menander of Athens
“The truly wise are always simple - simple friendliness, simple decency, simple goodwill between man and man. It is the little mind that spins complications.” -Eugene P. Berlin
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“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
“I wasn’t born a fool. It took work to get this way.” -Danny Kaye (also known as Danny Kolbin (born David Daniel Kaminsky (1911 - 1987)))
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“The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.” -Nicolas Boileau (1636 - 1711)
A wise person once said, “People who eat cookies in bed wake up feeling crummy.”
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“Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.” -Author Unknown: Scottish proverb
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A wise person once said, “Never argue with fool . . . he may be doing the same thing.”
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” -Euripides (484 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.): “Bacchæ,” line 480
“The wise man is the one who, when he sees what ought to be done, does it today. The foolish man, when he sees what ought to be done, says, ‘I will do it tomorrow.’” -Author Unknown
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“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827): “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1790 - 1793), ‘Proverbs of Hell,’ line 18
“Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.” -Author Unknown
Joyce: Why can’t you tell knock-knock jokes to simpletons?
Joy: Because they go to answer the door.
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“Do not seek after the sages of the past. Seek what they sought.” -Basho (Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694))
A wise person once said, “Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”
Carey: Why did the simpleton eat a dollar bill?
Answer: It was his lunch money.
“A Fool and his Money are soon parted.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 98
“A fool and his money are soon parted, but how did they get together in the first place?” -Evan Esar (born Esar Levine (1899 - 1995))
“A fool and his money rarely get together to start with.” -Author Unknown
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“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
“No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.” -Charles Steinmetz (Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865 - 1923))
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A wise person once said, “A day without sunshine is like night.”
“Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.” -Will Henry
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“Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.” -Tobias Smollett (1721 - 1771)
A wise person once said, “Practice moderation in everything, even in moderation itself.”
“Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.” -Nicolas Boileau (1636 - 1711)
A wise person once said, “No matter where you go, there you are.”
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“It is peculiarly a fool’s habit to discern the faults of others, and to forget his own.” -Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero, also known as Tully (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
A wise person once said, “You never know until you find out.” -Author Unknown
“He must be a fool indeed who cannot at times play the fool; and he who does not enjoy nonsense must be lacking in sense.” -William J. Rolfe
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“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.” -Author Unknown
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A wise person once said, “With great power comes great electricity bill.”
“A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)
“A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger; and mistaking foes for friends.” -Author Unknown
“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.” -Grantland Rice (Henry Grantland ‘Grantland’ Rice (1880 - 1954))
“There are more fools in the world than there are people.” -Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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A wise person once said, “Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, but not the same eight hours.”
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“Nearly four decades ago psychologist Stanley Milgram had a volunteer stand stock still on a busy New York sidewalk and look up at the sky. About one in every 25 passersby stopped to look up, too. When five volunteers were recruited to sky-gaze, nearly one in five passersby stopped to look up. When Milgram and his colleagues assembled a group of 18 volunteers to simultaneously look up at nothing in particular, nearly one in two passersby looked up to see what was going on, snarling traffic within moments.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in the “Washington Post” (December 2007) newspaper
“The wise man realizes how little he knows: it is the foolish person who imagines he knows everything.” -Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (also known simply as Colette (1873 - 1954))
“A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers.” -Author Unknown
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” -Douglas Adams (Douglas Noel Adams (1952 - 2001)): “Mostly Harmless” (1992) novel
“It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.” -Edsel Murphy
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“Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.” -Author Unknown
“I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.” -Alan Coren
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“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.” -Baltasar Gracián (Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601 - 1658))
“We all know a fool when we see one - but not when we are one.” -Arnold H. Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1999))
A wise person once said, “Person who laughs last, does not get joke.”
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“It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“A word to a wise person is sufficient.” [translation to English]
“Verbum sapienti sat est.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“The simple believe every word.” -Solomon: as quoted in “The Bible”
A wise person once said, “Person who sits on floor will not fall off chair.”
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“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.” -Author Unknown
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A wise person once said, “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
A wise person once said, “Folks often make fun of the wisdom of those they take for fools, while scarcely noticing the foolishness of those whom they imagine to be wise.”
“Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can’t remedy.” -Author Unknown
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“I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.)
“I am a member of the rabble, in good standing.” -Westbrook Pegler
A wise person once said, “A wise person lowers a ladder before he jumps into a pit.”
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“One fool makes many.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745): “Polite Conversation” (1783), book
A wise person once said, “Take my advice - I’m certainly not using it.”
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“The truly wise are always simple - simple friendliness, simple decency, simple goodwill between man and man. It is the little mind that spins complications.” -Eugene P. Berlin
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“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
“I wasn’t born a fool. It took work to get this way.” -Danny Kaye (also known as Danny Kolbin (born David Daniel Kaminsky (1911 - 1987)))
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“The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.” -Nicolas Boileau (1636 - 1711)
A wise person once said, “People who eat cookies in bed wake up feeling crummy.”
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“Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.” -Author Unknown: Scottish proverb
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A wise person once said, “Never argue with fool . . . he may be doing the same thing.”
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” -Euripides (484 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.): “Bacchæ,” line 480
“The wise man is the one who, when he sees what ought to be done, does it today. The foolish man, when he sees what ought to be done, says, ‘I will do it tomorrow.’” -Author Unknown
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“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827): “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1790 - 1793), ‘Proverbs of Hell,’ line 18
“Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.” -Author Unknown
Joyce: Why can’t you tell knock-knock jokes to simpletons?
Joy: Because they go to answer the door.
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“Do not seek after the sages of the past. Seek what they sought.” -Basho (Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694))
A wise person once said, “Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”
Carey: Why did the simpleton eat a dollar bill?
Answer: It was his lunch money.
“A Fool and his Money are soon parted.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 98
“A fool and his money are soon parted, but how did they get together in the first place?” -Evan Esar (born Esar Levine (1899 - 1995))
“A fool and his money rarely get together to start with.” -Author Unknown
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“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
“No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.” -Charles Steinmetz (Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865 - 1923))
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A wise person once said, “A day without sunshine is like night.”
“Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.” -Will Henry
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“Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.” -Tobias Smollett (1721 - 1771)
A wise person once said, “Practice moderation in everything, even in moderation itself.”
“Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.” -Nicolas Boileau (1636 - 1711)
A wise person once said, “No matter where you go, there you are.”
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“It is peculiarly a fool’s habit to discern the faults of others, and to forget his own.” -Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero, also known as Tully (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
A wise person once said, “You never know until you find out.” -Author Unknown
“He must be a fool indeed who cannot at times play the fool; and he who does not enjoy nonsense must be lacking in sense.” -William J. Rolfe
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“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.” -Author Unknown
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A wise person once said, “With great power comes great electricity bill.”
“A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)
“A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger; and mistaking foes for friends.” -Author Unknown
“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.” -Grantland Rice (Henry Grantland ‘Grantland’ Rice (1880 - 1954))
“There are more fools in the world than there are people.” -Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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A wise person once said, “Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, but not the same eight hours.”
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“Nearly four decades ago psychologist Stanley Milgram had a volunteer stand stock still on a busy New York sidewalk and look up at the sky. About one in every 25 passersby stopped to look up, too. When five volunteers were recruited to sky-gaze, nearly one in five passersby stopped to look up. When Milgram and his colleagues assembled a group of 18 volunteers to simultaneously look up at nothing in particular, nearly one in two passersby looked up to see what was going on, snarling traffic within moments.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in the “Washington Post” (December 2007) newspaper
“The wise man realizes how little he knows: it is the foolish person who imagines he knows everything.” -Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (also known simply as Colette (1873 - 1954))
“A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers.” -Author Unknown
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” -Douglas Adams (Douglas Noel Adams (1952 - 2001)): “Mostly Harmless” (1992) novel
“It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.” -Edsel Murphy
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“Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.” -Author Unknown
“I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.” -Alan Coren
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“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.” -Baltasar Gracián (Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601 - 1658))
“We all know a fool when we see one - but not when we are one.” -Arnold H. Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1999))
A wise person once said, “Person who laughs last, does not get joke.”
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“It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“A word to a wise person is sufficient.” [translation to English]
“Verbum sapienti sat est.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“The simple believe every word.” -Solomon: as quoted in “The Bible”
A wise person once said, “Person who sits on floor will not fall off chair.”
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“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.” -Author Unknown
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A wise person once said, “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
A wise person once said, “Folks often make fun of the wisdom of those they take for fools, while scarcely noticing the foolishness of those whom they imagine to be wise.”
“Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can’t remedy.” -Author Unknown
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“I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.)
“I am a member of the rabble, in good standing.” -Westbrook Pegler
A wise person once said, “A wise person lowers a ladder before he jumps into a pit.”
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“One fool makes many.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745): “Polite Conversation” (1783), book
A wise person once said, “Take my advice - I’m certainly not using it.”
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A Fool’s Guide To Life
Do you find day-to-day life hard? Do you wish life had an instruction booklet? Do you wish your brain had an owner’s manual? If you answered, “Yes,” to any of these questions, you have come to the right place. Following you will find, free of charge, a short ‘guide to life.’ In here, you will find most of the information you need to live life day by day without injuring yourself. Read carefully, and carry out each instruction exactly.
- Do not eat rocks.
- Do not take naps in the road.
- Do not throw a brick straight up.
- Do not breathe the exhaust from vehicles.
- Walk around toxic waste dumps, not through them.
- Do not stargaze with friends on a hilltop in a thunderstorm and use metal fishing rods as pointers.
- When putting on shoes, toes go in first, or TGIF.
- If you want to pound on the radiator to tell the landlord to turn up the heat, do not do it with your head.
- Do not make funny faces at angry bulls.
- Do not stick screwdrivers into electrical outlets.
- The warning ‘Do not try this at home’ really means ‘Do not try this at all.’
- Do not iron clothes while wearing them.
- Do not ride a sled down a hill that has a road at the bottom.
- Do not lick ice.
- Do not pour salt in your eyes.
- Your body has the correct number of holes in it. Do not make any more.
- Do not chase a bear in the woods to get a close-up photo.
- Do not chew on aluminum foil.
- Shovels are for digging holes in the ground, not in the floor of your house.
- Contrary to popular opinion, you are not supposed to strip the protective rubber coating off electrical wires before plugging them in.
- If you want to chew gum, buy some. Do not chew the gum from underneath the seats and desks at schools even though it is free.
- Do not kick stone walls.
- Even if you need to get downstairs quickly, do not jump out of a window - use the stairs.
- When using an acetylene torch, do not feel the flame to see if it is sufficiently hot.
- Better yet, stay away from acetylene torches altogether.
- Wear clothes.
- Use a potholder when removing items from the oven.
- No matter how tempting it is to join in and act like an animal, stay on the outside of all fences, cages, and other enclosures at the zoo.
- When sticking thumbtacks into bulletin boards, press on the flat ends.
What can you add to this list?
Do you find day-to-day life hard? Do you wish life had an instruction booklet? Do you wish your brain had an owner’s manual? If you answered, “Yes,” to any of these questions, you have come to the right place. Following you will find, free of charge, a short ‘guide to life.’ In here, you will find most of the information you need to live life day by day without injuring yourself. Read carefully, and carry out each instruction exactly.
- Do not eat rocks.
- Do not take naps in the road.
- Do not throw a brick straight up.
- Do not breathe the exhaust from vehicles.
- Walk around toxic waste dumps, not through them.
- Do not stargaze with friends on a hilltop in a thunderstorm and use metal fishing rods as pointers.
- When putting on shoes, toes go in first, or TGIF.
- If you want to pound on the radiator to tell the landlord to turn up the heat, do not do it with your head.
- Do not make funny faces at angry bulls.
- Do not stick screwdrivers into electrical outlets.
- The warning ‘Do not try this at home’ really means ‘Do not try this at all.’
- Do not iron clothes while wearing them.
- Do not ride a sled down a hill that has a road at the bottom.
- Do not lick ice.
- Do not pour salt in your eyes.
- Your body has the correct number of holes in it. Do not make any more.
- Do not chase a bear in the woods to get a close-up photo.
- Do not chew on aluminum foil.
- Shovels are for digging holes in the ground, not in the floor of your house.
- Contrary to popular opinion, you are not supposed to strip the protective rubber coating off electrical wires before plugging them in.
- If you want to chew gum, buy some. Do not chew the gum from underneath the seats and desks at schools even though it is free.
- Do not kick stone walls.
- Even if you need to get downstairs quickly, do not jump out of a window - use the stairs.
- When using an acetylene torch, do not feel the flame to see if it is sufficiently hot.
- Better yet, stay away from acetylene torches altogether.
- Wear clothes.
- Use a potholder when removing items from the oven.
- No matter how tempting it is to join in and act like an animal, stay on the outside of all fences, cages, and other enclosures at the zoo.
- When sticking thumbtacks into bulletin boards, press on the flat ends.
What can you add to this list?
A wise person once said, “If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.”
“A fool must now and then be right, by chance.” -William Cowper (1731 - 1800): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
A wise person once said, “Two wrongs do not make right, but two lefts make U-turn.”
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“Dare to be wise!” [translation to English]
“Sapere aude!” [original Latin]
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.))
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” -Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744): “An Essay on Criticism” (1711), Part III, line 66
A wise person once said, “One who sits on tack gets point.”
He trudged along unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of Thought.
-John Dryden (1631 - 1700): “Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems” (1700), page 544, ‘Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace,’ lines 84 and 85 [translated to Modern English]
A wise person once said, “A neat desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.”
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A wise person once said, “A wise person listens no matter how boring someone is talking.”
“Silence is foolish if we are wise but wise if we are foolish.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
A wise person once said, “In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.”
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“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.” -Solomon: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 13, verse 20
A wise person once said, “Person who thinks only of number one must remember this number is next to nothing.”
“A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.” -J. E. Houseman
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“Who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.” [translation to English]
“Qui vit sans folie n’est pas si sage qu’il croit.” [original French]
-François de La Rochefoucauld (also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)): “Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims” (1665 - 1678), Maxim 209
A wise person once said, “Starving person with one chopstick goes hungry.”
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“If forty million people say a foolish thing, it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “A Writer’s Notebook” (1946), page 76: ‘1901’
A wise person once said, “With time and patience, the banana at last becomes the monkey.”
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“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.” [translated to English]
“Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.” [original Latin]
-Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.): “Sententiae,” Maxim 914
“Be wise today; ’tis madness to defer.” -Edward Young (1683 - 1765): “Night-Thoughts” (1742 - 1745), ‘Night I,’ line 390
“A fool must now and then be right, by chance.” -William Cowper (1731 - 1800): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
A wise person once said, “Two wrongs do not make right, but two lefts make U-turn.”
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“Dare to be wise!” [translation to English]
“Sapere aude!” [original Latin]
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.))
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” -Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744): “An Essay on Criticism” (1711), Part III, line 66
A wise person once said, “One who sits on tack gets point.”
He trudged along unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of Thought.
-John Dryden (1631 - 1700): “Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems” (1700), page 544, ‘Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace,’ lines 84 and 85 [translated to Modern English]
A wise person once said, “A neat desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.”
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A wise person once said, “A wise person listens no matter how boring someone is talking.”
“Silence is foolish if we are wise but wise if we are foolish.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
A wise person once said, “In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.”
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“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.” -Solomon: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 13, verse 20
A wise person once said, “Person who thinks only of number one must remember this number is next to nothing.”
“A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.” -J. E. Houseman
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“Who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.” [translation to English]
“Qui vit sans folie n’est pas si sage qu’il croit.” [original French]
-François de La Rochefoucauld (also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)): “Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims” (1665 - 1678), Maxim 209
A wise person once said, “Starving person with one chopstick goes hungry.”
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“If forty million people say a foolish thing, it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “A Writer’s Notebook” (1946), page 76: ‘1901’
A wise person once said, “With time and patience, the banana at last becomes the monkey.”
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“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.” [translated to English]
“Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.” [original Latin]
-Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.): “Sententiae,” Maxim 914
“Be wise today; ’tis madness to defer.” -Edward Young (1683 - 1765): “Night-Thoughts” (1742 - 1745), ‘Night I,’ line 390
Simple Simon
Simple Simon met a pieman,
going to the fair;
Said Simple Simon to the pieman,
“Let me taste your ware.”
Said the pieman to Simple Simon,
“Show me first your penny,”
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
“Indeed, I have not any.”
Simple Simon went a-fishing
For to catch a whale;
All the water he could find
Was in his mother’s pail!
Simple Simon went to look
If plums grew on a thistle;
He pricked his fingers very much,
Which made poor Simon whistle.
He went to catch a dicky bird,
And thought he could not fail,
Because he had a little salt,
To put upon its tail.
He went for water with a sieve,
But soon it ran all through;
And now poor Simple Simon
Bids you all adieu.
By Author Unknown
Simple Simon met a pieman,
going to the fair;
Said Simple Simon to the pieman,
“Let me taste your ware.”
Said the pieman to Simple Simon,
“Show me first your penny,”
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
“Indeed, I have not any.”
Simple Simon went a-fishing
For to catch a whale;
All the water he could find
Was in his mother’s pail!
Simple Simon went to look
If plums grew on a thistle;
He pricked his fingers very much,
Which made poor Simon whistle.
He went to catch a dicky bird,
And thought he could not fail,
Because he had a little salt,
To put upon its tail.
He went for water with a sieve,
But soon it ran all through;
And now poor Simple Simon
Bids you all adieu.
By Author Unknown
A wise person once said, “It is colder outside than it would be if it was warmer than it is.”
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“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
A wise person once said, “Grease monkey who goes to bed without bathing wakes up oily in the morning.”
“Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (also known as Marie Ebner von Eschenbach (1830 - 1916)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
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“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
A wise person once said, “Grease monkey who goes to bed without bathing wakes up oily in the morning.”
“Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (also known as Marie Ebner von Eschenbach (1830 - 1916)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
A wise person once said, “If you do not give something, you will not get anything.”
“Fools are certain, but wise men hesitate.” -Author Unknown
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A wise person once said, “Person who lives in glass house should change clothes in basement.”
“The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 617
A wise person once said, “I am a fool, too, sometimes.”
A wise person once said, “I’m still waiting patiently for the wisdom that supposedly comes with age.”
A wise person once said, “At night it gets dark.”
A wise person once said, “Best time to buy new mattress, at first sign of spring.”
A wise person once said, “You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.”
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A wise person once said, “Person who attempts to stand on wall will soon be floored.”
A wise person once said, “Even the greatest of whales is helpless in middle of desert.”
A wise person once said, “If you do not change the direction in which you are going, you will end up where you are headed.”
A wise person once said, “A smile is your personal welcome mat.”
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A wise person once said, “The reverse side also has a reverse side.”
A wise person once said, “To make eggroll, push it.”
A wise person once said, “Those who throw dirt, lose ground.”
A wise person once said, “Don’t take any wooden nickels! Wait! Wooden nickels might be antiques or valuable collectors’ items, so better accept them all!”
A wise person once said, “Every wise person started out by asking many questions.”
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“Fools are certain, but wise men hesitate.” -Author Unknown
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A wise person once said, “Person who lives in glass house should change clothes in basement.”
“The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 617
A wise person once said, “I am a fool, too, sometimes.”
A wise person once said, “I’m still waiting patiently for the wisdom that supposedly comes with age.”
A wise person once said, “At night it gets dark.”
A wise person once said, “Best time to buy new mattress, at first sign of spring.”
A wise person once said, “You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.”
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A wise person once said, “Person who attempts to stand on wall will soon be floored.”
A wise person once said, “Even the greatest of whales is helpless in middle of desert.”
A wise person once said, “If you do not change the direction in which you are going, you will end up where you are headed.”
A wise person once said, “A smile is your personal welcome mat.”
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A wise person once said, “The reverse side also has a reverse side.”
A wise person once said, “To make eggroll, push it.”
A wise person once said, “Those who throw dirt, lose ground.”
A wise person once said, “Don’t take any wooden nickels! Wait! Wooden nickels might be antiques or valuable collectors’ items, so better accept them all!”
A wise person once said, “Every wise person started out by asking many questions.”
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