Wisdom and Advice

“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.” -Author Unknown
 
“Be excellent to each other!” -Author Unknown: “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” (1989) movie
 
“Pursue worthy aims.” -Solon (636 B.C.E. - 558 B.C.E.)
 
Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you.
Trust, but don’t be deceived. 
Be content, but never stop improving yourself.
-Author Unknown
 
“Don’t ever let anyone dull your sparkle.” -Author Unknown
 
“If you would know the road ahead, ask someone who has traveled it.” -Author Unknown
 
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” -Author Unknown
 
“Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant. But the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.” -Author Unknown: Indian proverb
 
“Be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others.” -Jessi Lane Adams (pseudonym of Terri Guillemets (born 1973))
 
“Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.” -Author Unknown: Welsh proverb
 
“What cannot be helped must be endured.” -Author Unknown: “Rob Roy” (7 April 1995) movie; words spoken by fictional character Mary MacGregor
 
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The Way
 
Cocks crow in the morn
     To tell us to rise,
And he who lies late
     Will never be wise.
 
For early to bed
     And early to rise
Is the way to be healthy,
     And wealthy, and wise.
 
by Author Unknown
 
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“Keep trying. Stay humble. Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” -Yogi Berra (Lawrence Peter ‘Yogi’ Berra (1925 - 2015))
 
“Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.” -Author Unknown
 
“Wisdom: Common sense in an uncommon degree.” -Author Unknown
 
“Whoever said sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.” -Author Unknown
 
“Don’t eat anything you shouldn’t.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.” -Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
 
“Spend time with those you love, because one of these days you will say either, ‘I wish I had,’ or, ‘I’m glad I did.’” -Author Unknown
 
“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but misspent time is gone forever.” -Author Unknown
 
“Whatever advice you give, be brief.” -Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.))
 
“You must get good at one of two things: planting in the Spring or begging in the Fall.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))
 
“The words you speak today should be soft and tender . . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them.” -Author Unknown
 
“It is traditional on these occasions for me to give you a bit of advice, which you will equally traditionally ignore.” -Philip Mountbatten (also known as Prince Philip (born 1921))
 
“Don’t ever slam a door; you might want to go back.” -Author Unknown
 
“He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
 
“Wise people carry their possessions within them.” -Author Unknown
 
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
 
“A mountain shames a molehill until both are humbled by the stars.” -Author Unknown: proverb
 
“One day you’ll just be a memory to some people. Do your best to be a good one.” -Author Unknown
 
“Few persons have good enough sight to see their own faults.” -Author Unknown
 
“It’s possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.” -Lee Segall
 
“Don’t trust advice from a person who’s in trouble.” -Author Unknown
 
Accept a proverb out of Wisdom’s schools -
“Barbers first learn to shave by shaving fools.”
-John Wolcot (1738 - 1819): “Works” (1792)
 
“Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.” -Author Unknown
 
“A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.” -Sholom Aleichem (pseudonym of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (1859 - 1916))
 
“Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.” -Author Unknown
 
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.” -Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900))
 
“Remember, it’s not the fall that hurts you; it’s the stop at the end.” -Author Unknown
 
“My parents told me, ‘Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.’ I tell my daughters, ‘Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.’” -Thomas Friedman
 
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” -Barry LePatner (Barry Bruce LePatner (born 1947))
 
“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.” -Author Unknown
 
Don’t cry over the past, it’s gone.
Don’t worry about the future, it hasn’t arrived.
Live in the present, and make it beautiful.
-Author Unknown
 
“Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.” -Ron Wild
 
“The first step toward madness is to think oneself wise.” -Fernando de Rojas
 
Enjoy yourself,
It’s later than you think.
-Herb Magidson (1906 - 1986): “Enjoy Yourself” (1950) song
 
“Work hard, dress well, and be nice to people.” -Author Unknown
 
“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.” -Arthur Helps (1813 - 1875)
 
The road to wisdom?
Well it’s plain and simple to express:
Err and err and err again
but less and less and less.
-Piet Hein (1905 - 1996)
 
“No man is wise enough by himself.” -Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus (254 B.C.E. - 184 B.C.E.))
 
“Rise with the Sun and go to bed with the chickens.” -Author Unknown
 
“Many receive advice; only the wise profit from it.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)
 
“If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, ‘Tell the truth.’ If I got three more words, I’d add, ‘All the time.’” -Randy Pausch (Randolph Frederick ‘Randy’ Pausch (1960 - 2008))
 
“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.” -Aeschylus (525 B.C.E. - 456 B.C.E.)
 
“You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.” -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909 - 1966): “Unkempt Thoughts” (1957)
 
“Be wise to-day; ’tis madness to defer.” -Edward Young (1683 - 1765): “Night Thoughts,” ‘Night’ Part 1, line 390
 
“The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592))
 
“Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.” -Author Unknown: Swedish proverb
 
“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.” -Edward Thorndike (Edward Lee Thorndike (1874 - 1949))

“Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this Earth would be God’s Paradise.” -Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
 
“The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. That has been my secret, and I have never had any quarrels.” -Hannah Whitall Smith (1832 - 1911): as quoted in Logan Pearsall Smith, editor: “Philadelphia Quaker: The Letters of Hannah Whitall Smith” (1950), page 146
 
“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
 
“Charity gives itself rich; greed hoards itself poor.” -Author Unknown: German proverb
 
“We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.” -Arthur Helps (1813 - 1875)
 
“Speak your mind but ride a fast horse.” -Author Unknown
 
“If a man loves to give advice, it is a sure sign that he himself wants it.” -George Savile (also known as Lord Halifax (1633 - 1695))
 
“If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.” -Joseph Marshall Wade (1832 - 1905)
 
“No man was ever wise by chance.” [translation to English]
“Nulli sapere casu obtigit.” [original Latin]
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
 
“Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.” -Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett (1721 - 1771))
 
“Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul.” -Author Unknown
 
“It’s a small world. So you gotta use your elbows a lot.” -Author Unknown
 
“Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.” -Author Unknown
 
“Wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future, and profit from the past.” -Author Unknown
 
Good Advice
 
Don’t shirk
     Your work
For the sake
     Of a dream;
A fish
     In the dish
Is worth ten
     In the stream.
 
by Author Unknown
 
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” -Robert Brault (born 1938)
 
“Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.” -Sydney J. Harris (Sydney Justin Harris (1917 - 1986))
 
“Advice is like snow, the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
 
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” -Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
 
Keep your eye on the ball.
Keep your shoulder to the wheel.
Keep your nose to the grindstone.
Now try to work in that position.
-Author Unknown
 
“Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you’re going to miss in the years ahead.” -Author Unknown
 
“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.” -Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636 - 1711)
 
“Seek advice but use your own common sense.” -Author Unknown: Yiddish proverb
 
“The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
 
“Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.” -Author Unknown
 
“Whatever you are, try to be a good one.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1853): as quoted in Laurence Hutton: “A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs” (1898) autobiography
 
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