For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ….

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils..

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the see….

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness ….

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise..

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty..

And I thought I had problems? Look at your face!.

O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark pass….

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every p….

To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish..

May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud..

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man..

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one..

How wise must one be to be always kind..

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to..

The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling thr….

A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers t….

There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cli….

If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you..

Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he f….

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man..