Wisdom Quotes — page 481

Before undergoing a surgical operation arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

Cut my cote after my cloth.

I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.

2826. Provoke not even a patient Man too far ; extreme Sufferance when it comes to dissolve, breaks out into the most severe Revenge ; for taking Fire at last, Anger and Fury being combined into one, discharge their utmost Force at the …

Be useful where thou livest.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

A day after the faire.

Fraternity has subtleties.

2732. Thou knowest not thy own Strength for want of trying it, and upon that Account thinkest thyself really unable to do many Things which Experience would convince thee, thou hast more Ability to effect, than thou hast Will to attempt.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure. Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.

A kiss is but a modified bite, and a fond mother, when she rapturously avers that her babe is 'almost good enough to eat,' merely shows that she is herself only a trifle too good to eat it.

We both be at our wittes end.

We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.

2683. Have a Care of him that is slow to anger, for like as green Wood which is long in kindling, continueth hot longer than the dry, if it have once taken Fire : So that Man, who is not easily moved is more hard to be pacify'd, than he …

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.

The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodré. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.

2597. Keep thy Judgment to thyself. Why should others know what thou art? or paraphrase upon thy Opinion? Herein thou hast the Advantage of changing thy Mind when thou art mistaken, and yet continue ( for ought others know ) in the same …

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

We are two abysses — a well staring at the sky.

2591. If I leave thee a moderate Fortune, as my Father left me, and thou provest wise and virtuous, it will be sufficient. It's none of the least of God's Favours, that Wealth comes not trolling in upon us ; for many of us should have been …

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