Three Wise Women

Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates

No man is wise enough by himself. - Plautus

A word to the wise is infuriating. - Hunter S Thompson

Woman was God's second mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The woman that deliberates is lost. - Joseph Addison

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. - e e cummings

Well-behaved women never make history. - Maria Shriver

The wise speak only of what they know. - Gandalf

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones. - Helena Rubinstein

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon

Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Colette

A woman's work is never done - by men. - Unknown

Women are made to be loved, not understood. - Oscar Wilde

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. - Unknown

When women go wrong, men go right after them. - Mae West

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. - Daphne du Maurier

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. - Jim Carrey

As Unto The Bow The Cord Is, So Unto The Man Is Woman - Longfellow

The woman cries before the wedding and the man after. - Polish Proverb

I am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me. - Unknown

Many receive advice, but only the wise profit from it. - Syrus

I hate women because they always know where things are. - Voltaire

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. - Spanish Proverb

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. - William Hazlitt

Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse. - Spike Milligan

Wisdom is becoming competent with regard to the realities of life. - Gerhard von Rad

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. - Mark Twain

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. - Virginia Woolf

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. - Brendan Francis

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. - H L Mencken

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. - Joseph Addison

On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women. - H L Mencken

Wisdom is knowing which road is the right one; integrity is taking it. - Unknown

All this worldly wisdom was once the unnameable heresy of some wise man. - Henry David Thoreau

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. - Henry David Thoreau

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. - Aristotle Onassis

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune. - Amelia Earhart

The great majority of neuroses in women have their origin in the marriage bed. - Sigmund Freud

Beauty is the first present nature gives to a woman and the first it takes away. - Fay Weldon

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. - Francis Bacon

Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one. - WC Fields

No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action. - Michelene Wandor

The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden, and it ends with Revelations. - Oscar Wilde

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is usually plain. - Oscar Wilde

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. - Zen Proverb

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose. - Mark Twain

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. - David S Jordan

I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night... and reduce the crime rate. - Phyllis Diller

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. - Oscar Wilde

I believe in loyalty: I think when a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick to it. - Eva Gabor

Women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. - George Carlin

Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

God gives men wisdom as he gives them gold; his treasure house is not the mint, but the mine. - Arabic Proverb

You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, and that's not saying much for you. - Groucho Marx

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping. - Rita Rudner

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back. - Dale Carnegie

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows where it is written and where it is to be found. - A.A. Hodge

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see. - Huang-Po

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. - Diogenes of Sinope

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - Godfrey Winn

Sometimes a man just can't satisfy all of a woman's desires. Which is why God invented dental floss. - Unknown

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. - Eric Ericksen

We are each given a limitless capacity to love and attain wisdom. The extent we use these gifts is our choice. - Anthony Douglas

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town. - Steve Martin

Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth, for she has held a star. - Larry Barratto

If a woman says, 'Do what you want', do not do what you want. Stand still. Do not blink. Don't even breathe. Just play dead. - Unknown

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer. - Michael P King

If you decide to stop flying, it is wise to hang on to your wings, for you may need them one day, when one of your other qualities turns dangerous. - Am Leach