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Wisdom.

Timeless truths from the greatest minds of every era

“Report makes the wolf bigger than he is.”

German proverbs

“The sheep that bleats is strangled by the wolf.”

Italian proverbs

“Do not judge of the ship while it is on the stocks.”

Italian proverbs

“Every one is the son of his own works.”

Miguel de Cervantes

“He that excuses himself accuses himself.”

French proverbs

“The master bids the man, and the man bids the cat, and the cat bids its tail.”

Portuguese proverbs

“Whom a serpent has bitten, a lizard alarms.”

Italian proverbs

“Malice drinks one half of its own poison.”

“Old crows are hard to catch.”

German proverbs

“Better is a near neighbor than a distant cousin.”

Italian proverbs

“To every one his own cross seems heaviest.”

Italian proverbs

“A long tongue betokens a short hand.”

Spanish proverbs

“To one who has a pie in the oven you may give a bit of your cake.”

French proverbs

“Where there are no dogs the fox is a king.”

Italian proverbs

“Let every man skin his own skunk.”

American proverbs

“What is whispered in the ear is often heard a hundred miles off.”

Chinese proverbs

“Hunger makes raw beans sweet.”

German proverbs

“Many kiss the hands they would fain see chopped off.”

“Take help of many, counsel of few.”

Danish proverbs

“All criminals turn preachers when they are under the gallows.”

Italian proverbs

“No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.”

Publilius Syrus

“Every potter praises his pot, and all the more if it is cracked.”

Spanish proverbs

“To be between the hammer and the anvil.”

French proverbs

“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”

“Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.”

“There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.”

“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.”

William E. Simon

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“Why is it inflationary if the people keep their own money, and spend it the way they want to, [but] not inflationary if the government takes it and spends it the way it wants to?.”

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Money often costs too much.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”

Albert Einstein

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”

“If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.”

“Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.”

“Genius has limitations; stupidity is boundless.”

Albert Einstein

“Nothing happens until something moves.”

Albert Einstein

“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.”

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

Albert Einstein

“Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.”

“Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your clutter is a lagging measure of your cleaning habits. You get what you repeat.”

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”

“There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.”

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”