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Words of Wisdom Quotes

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Life is like a novel with the end ripped out.

– Rascal Flatts

Learn from the mistakes of others. Life is too short to make them all yourself.

– Sam Levenson

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

It’s all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are done.

It isn’t difficult to make a mountain out of a molehill, just add a little dirt.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

– Peter Ustinov

It is identifying current questions.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

– Winston Churchill

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

– Hugo De Groot

If you tell the truth you only have to remember one story.

– Sister Lucille

If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.

– Chinese Proverb

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

– Rita Mae Brown

Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.

– Oscar Levant

Great truths are sometimes so enveloping and exist in such plain view as to be invisible.

– E.O. Wilson

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

– Barry LePatner

God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

– Franklin P. Jones

Experience has shown, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

– Thomas Jefferson

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

– Robertson Davies

Don’t expect acorns to turn into redwoods.

– Jim Cathcart

Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

– Stephen Colbert

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

– Lord Chesterfield

A successful marriage isn’t finding the right person it’s being the right person.

A skeptic is a person who when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it’s a forgery.

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.

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