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"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round"
Ben Hogan, Athlete
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings"
John Muir, Environmentalist
"Wisdom begins at the end"
Daniel Webster, Statesman
"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance"
Harold S. Geneen, Businessman
"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation"
Moliere, Playwright
"Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength"
Phil Jackson, Coach
"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself"
Tom Wilson, Cartoonist
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary"
Richard Whately, Writer
"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool"
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician
"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew"
Herb Caen, Journalist
"He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom"
James Huneker, Writer
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it"
David Starr Jordan, Writer
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world"
Archimedes, Mathematician
"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not"
Akhenaton, Statesman
"Some folks are wise and some are otherwise"
Tobias Smollett, Writer
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