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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social stability than an affectionate and understanding family. There never was a better way of helping children to happiness than the close confidence of wise and loving and responsible parents.

You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.

Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.

I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.