Three Wise Women

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. - Rene Descartes

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

Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. - German Proverb

I married beneath me. All women do. - Lady Nancy Astor

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix

Women should be obscene and not heard. - Groucho Marx

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

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

He who looketh upon a woman loseth a fender. - Auto repair shop

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

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. - Joseph Joubert

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it. - George Carlin

Women like silent men, they think they're listening. - George Carlin

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it. - Esai Morales

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

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. - Michel de Montaigne

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. - Mark Twain

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

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. - Abd-el-Kadar

Wise people learn when they can.
Fools learn when they must. - Arthur Wellesley Wellington

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. - Chinese Proverb

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. - Jonathan Swift

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own. - H.G. Bohn

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. - Groucho Marx

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. - Mae West

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears. - Dr. Phil McGraw

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

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. - JRR Tolkien

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Santayana

I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. - Honore de Balzac

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. - Oscar Wilde

What else is there to live for? Chinese food and women. There is nothing else! - Dudley Moore

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. - Conrad Hilton

The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. - Yves St. Laurent

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German. - Emperor Charles V

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H L Mencken

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. - Billy Crystal

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. - Miles Kington

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

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. - Joseph Joubert

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

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is. - Helen Rowland

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. - Oscar Wilde

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. - Lactantius

Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you. - Unknown

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

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be made at me for saying that. - Mitch Hedberg

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. - Theodore Isaac Rubin

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. - Seneca

One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron. - Marilyn Vos Savant

Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement. - Jennifer Hudock

The only reason they say 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats. - Jean Kerr

Some old women and men grow bitter with age. The more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get. - George D. Prentice

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. - George Bernard Shaw

Never try to impress a woman because if you do, you'll have to keep up that standard the rest of your life. - WC Fields

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. - Oscar Wilde

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

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open. - George Bernard Shaw

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive, and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done. - Benjamin E. Mays

Feminism isn't about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength. - G.D. Anderson

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. - Germaine Greer