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SPANISH PROVERB A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
PROVERB A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able...
THOMAS HOBBES When wise man quits learning,
he will be more senile onwards.
TOBA BETA A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be it's slave.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS For monarchy to work, one man must be wise. For democracy to work, a majority of the people must be ...
CHARLES MAURRAS A wise man should not reveal his loss of wealth, the vexation of his mind, the misconduct of his own...
CHANAKYA The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, ...
ARISTOTLE Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of disti...
DIOGENES If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
MARK TWAIN If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance
MARK TWAIN Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignor...
JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
CONFUCIUS A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
KONG FU ZI The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go...
GEORGE MACDONALD Two things a wise man never discloses to the public; his money and his women.
HABEEB AKANDE A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
BIBLE When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrash...
THOMAS HUGHES We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame.
SOURCE UNKNOWN In my mind, there's nothing our generation should be more ashamed of than people with severe mental ...
FRAN QUIGLEY Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn
SOPHOCLES For there is one thing we must never forget… the majority can never replace the man. And no more t...
ADOLF HITLER A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today ...
ALEXANDER POPE A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIAN A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning
DANISH PROVERB The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge...
CHANAKYA A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he i...
JONATHAN SWIFT Though man is spirit, the most important operational element of man on the earth is his mind
SUNDAY ADELAJA A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIáN A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sha...
A. E. HOUSMAN I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.
EVAN HUNTER A foole knowes more in his house, then a wise man in anothers.
GEORGE HERBERT A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answ...
JOHN ABBOTT 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the an...
JOHN ABBOTT How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the ans...
JOHN ABBOTT 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the an...
JOHN ABBOTT The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return fo...
EDWARD H. HARRIMAN A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own ...
HIPPOCRATES If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must.
A man to be happy, however,...
ROMAN PAYNE should be ashamed of himself.
A. BUSH Whatever man does he must do first in his mind
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI It is a hard thing to be married to a man of learning that must always be having arguments.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
BIBLE A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, ...
ALEXANDER POPE The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
THEODOR REIK A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his m...
HENRY FIELDING Freedom of mind is the real freedom.
A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in c...
B.R. AMBEDKAR A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other wor...
ALEXANDER POPE Give a foolish man money & his foolishness will become more pronounced,but give a wise man money & h...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return fo...
EDWARD H. HARRIMAN A man should never neglect his family for business.
WALT DISNEY A man should never neglect his family for business.
CECELIA AHERN Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
WOODY ALLEN Learning never exhausts the mind.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Learning never exhausts the mind
LEONARDO DA VINCI Luck never made a man wise.
SENECA 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; an...
JOHN ABBOTT If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A wise man will never attack an opponent on his weakness but rather on his perceived strength, for t...
TIRSO John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.
HANK GREEN the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
ANONYMOUS Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...
H. RIDER HAGGARD It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the l...
WILLIAM COBBETT 'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense s...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.
NOEL COWARD Here's a very, very wise person, and we should get more of his wisdom out into the world while we st...
ED DELANEY Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
if you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning, <...
J.K. ROWLING Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him (Proverbs 26:12).
BIBLE You know, it's never wise to tempt the devil"
His gaze lowered to her hand, still locked in his...
KRISTEN CALLIHAN A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
HENRI B. STENDHAL A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
STENDHAL A Strong Man Works on his Strength. A Wise Man Works on his Weakness.
DANIEL RIEGER ANDERSSON Man, being mindful should have a secular civilization. Wisdom and knowledge as goods to his mind; an...
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was an embarrassment and we should be ashamed of ourselves,
RYAN SMYTH By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin...
SOLOMON SCHECHTER By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin...
SOLOMON SCHECHTER No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
GEORGE MCGOVERN He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
DANISH PROVERB A wise man does his own work.
TURKISH PROVERB A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
WILLIAM FREDERICK BOOK A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLES In my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of my leadership in Washington. And I would hope from...
HARRY TAYLOR The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallo...
LESZEK KOłAKOWSKI Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a lit...
SHANNON L. ALDER A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oa...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

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SOPHOCLES Ignorant menDont know what good they hold in their hands untilTheyve flung it away.
SOPHOCLES I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
SOPHOCLES For the dead there are no more toils.
SOPHOCLES What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
SOPHOCLES Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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SOPHOCLES A short saying often contains much wisdom.
SOPHOCLES Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
SOPHOCLES Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
SOPHOCLES Truth is always the strongest argument.
SOPHOCLES Success, remember is the reward of toil.
SOPHOCLES Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to
SOPHOCLES All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil...
SOPHOCLES One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
SOPHOCLES To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!
SOPHOCLES None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES No enemy is worse than bad advice.
SOPHOCLES To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
SOPHOCLES The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
SOPHOCLES There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
SOPHOCLES Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SOPHOCLES One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
SOPHOCLES Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
SOPHOCLES Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as...
SOPHOCLES The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
SOPHOCLES I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating
SOPHOCLES Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law
SOPHOCLES When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, <...
SOPHOCLES Without labor nothing prospers.
SOPHOCLES It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SOPHOCLES Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul...
SOPHOCLES In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
SOPHOCLES Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dis...
SOPHOCLES The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
SOPHOCLES Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
SOPHOCLES Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
SOPHOCLES There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
SOPHOCLES Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
SOPHOCLES Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
SOPHOCLES The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SOPHOCLES When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
SOPHOCLES If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a ...
SOPHOCLES A man growing old becomes a child again.
SOPHOCLES You win the victory when you yield to friends.
SOPHOCLES Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
SOPHOCLES A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
SOPHOCLES Who seeks shall find.
SOPHOCLES Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
SOPHOCLES Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
SOPHOCLES To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
SOPHOCLES Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SOPHOCLES Success is dependent on effort.
SOPHOCLES Always desire to learn something useful.
SOPHOCLES A human being is only breath and shadow.
SOPHOCLES A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLES Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
SOPHOCLES To touch the quick.
SOPHOCLES We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
SOPHOCLES If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.
SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
SOPHOCLES There is no greater evil than anarchy.
SOPHOCLES Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
SOPHOCLES Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
SOPHOCLES All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
SOPHOCLES All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
SOPHOCLES There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,
When it finds its nest left empt and little o...
SOPHOCLES For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
SOPHOCLES Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
SOPHOCLES The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all li...
SOPHOCLES Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
SOPHOCLES Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest d...
SOPHOCLES To revive sorrow is cruel.
SOPHOCLES Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
SOPHOCLES Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
SOPHOCLES Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.
SOPHOCLES Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
SOPHOCLES I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow t...
SOPHOCLES How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
SOPHOCLES Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
SOPHOCLES For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
SOPHOCLES Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
SOPHOCLES To him who is in fear everything rustles.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old.
SOPHOCLES What you cannot enforce, do not command.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
SOPHOCLES Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
SOPHOCLES A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
SOPHOCLES There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big w...
SOPHOCLES Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until ...
SOPHOCLES Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
SOPHOCLES A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
SOPHOCLES Time eases all things.
SOPHOCLES How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!
SOPHOCLES The good befriend themselves.
SOPHOCLES Stranger in a strange country.
SOPHOCLES One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
SOPHOCLES It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
SOPHOCLES The end excuses any evil.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
SOPHOCLES The ideal condition
Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;
But since we are ...
SOPHOCLES To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by i...
SOPHOCLES Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
SOPHOCLES To a man who is afraid everything rustles.
SOPHOCLES Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass life's goal.
SOPHOCLES They command us, though they speak no words.
SOPHOCLES In a just cause the weak will beat the strong
SOPHOCLES War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always
SOPHOCLES Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it f...
SOPHOCLES There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words a...
SOPHOCLES There is a point at which even justice does injury.
SOPHOCLES One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try
SOPHOCLES It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good
SOPHOCLES When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
SOPHOCLES Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
SOPHOCLES In a just cause it is right to be confident
SOPHOCLES There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust
SOPHOCLES It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has mad...
SOPHOCLES Silence gives the proper grace to women
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SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away
SOPHOCLES Nobody likes the bringer of bad news
SOPHOCLES There are many wonderful things, but none is more wonderful than man
SOPHOCLES Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save by trial
SOPHOCLES How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
SOPHOCLES The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right,...
SOPHOCLES Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world
SOPHOCLES How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong
SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
SOPHOCLES Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn
SOPHOCLES No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforw...
SOPHOCLES No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
SOPHOCLES It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
SOPHOCLES If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would b...
SOPHOCLES It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
SOPHOCLES To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
SOPHOCLES Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune
SOPHOCLES It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
SOPHOCLES Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
SOPHOCLES Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew ...
SOPHOCLES No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
SOPHOCLES No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
SOPHOCLES Even a poor man can receive honors.
SOPHOCLES There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
SOPHOCLES If you are out of trouble, watch for danger
SOPHOCLES There is no more deadly peril than disobedience;
States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins...
SOPHOCLES The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,...
SOPHOCLES AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux.

ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuv...
SOPHOCLES Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
SOPHOCLES I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow t...
SOPHOCLES Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to ...
SOPHOCLES Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best li...
SOPHOCLES The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
SOPHOCLES For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a ...
SOPHOCLES Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
SOPHOCLES The only crime is pride.
SOPHOCLES A short saying oft contains much wisdom
SOPHOCLES No honest man will argue on every side
SOPHOCLES There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life
SOPHOCLES Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SOPHOCLES Time is a kindly God
SOPHOCLES Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
SOPHOCLES It is God's giving if we laugh or weep
SOPHOCLES Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old
SOPHOCLES God's dice always have a lucky roll
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it.
SOPHOCLES You win the victory when you yield to friends
SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
SOPHOCLES A lie never lives to be old.
SOPHOCLES One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
SOPHOCLES You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SOPHOCLES I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
SOPHOCLES It is my nature to join in love, not hate.
SOPHOCLES Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.
All men make mistakes, it is only human.
B...
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SOPHOCLES Oh it's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
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SOPHOCLES Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man; the storm gray sea
Y...
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