Three Wise Women

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. - Rene Descartes

Wisdom is found only in truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be quick to learn and wise to know. - George Burns

Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. - German Proverb

The woman that deliberates is lost. - Joseph Addison

What the wise seek is in themselves. - Confucius

Man has his will, but woman has her way. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Man has his will, but woman has her way. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Tis brief, my lord... as woman's love. - William Shakespeare

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

Women would rather be right than reasonable. - Ogden Nash

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

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

So wise so young, they say, do never live long. - William Shakespeare

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up. - Kyle Farnsworth

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

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

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. - Baltasar Gracian

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. - Unknown

The smiles of a pretty woman are the tears of the purse. - Italian Proverb

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. - Anatole France

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. - Albert Einstein

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. - Wilhelm II

An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late. - Portuguese Proverb

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Give me a woman who truly loves beer and I will conquer the world. - Kaiser Willhelm II

Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other. - W Somerset Maugham

The best years of a woman's life - the ten years between 39 and 40. - Unknown

The 3 fastest means of communication: Twitter; Telephone; Tell a woman. - Unknown

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. - William Penn

That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say no in any of them. - Dorothy Parker

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. - George Best

A woman is like a teabag. Only in hot water do you realize how strong she is. - Nancy Reagan

He who has two women loses his soul. But he who has two homes loses his mind. - Ancient Proverb

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. - Oscar Wilde

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby. - Natalie Wood

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. - Evan Esar

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. - Sara Teasdale

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. - Edward Humphrey

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

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

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. - Bill Cosby

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald, but if he has fire, women will like him. - Mae West

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

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. - Joseph Addison

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. - Cher

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. - Plato

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold. - Marlo Thomas

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Looking at how successful all the Kardashian women are, I don't blame Bruce Jenner at all. - Trevor Noah

First women subtract from their age, then they divide it, and then they extract its square root. - Unknown

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

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

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

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house. - Rod Stewart

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. - Oscar Wilde

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

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. - Robert Frost

Remember, we're fighting for this woman’s honor, which is probably far more than she's ever done! - Groucho Marx

For twenty-four years I've been in love with the same woman. If my wife ever finds out, she'll kill me. - Henny Youngman

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. - Lin-Chi

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom. We learn from trial and error; we become wise by understanding problems. - Leon Brown

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. - Buddha

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate. - Graham Greene

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. - Maya Angelou