#wise men

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#common people #men #people #speak #style

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#guidance #men #obedience #rules #wise

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#get #men #out #pond #stone

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#judges #kings #may #men #wise

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. ↗

— Jay Leno

#any #cannot #court #find #men

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. ↗

— David McCullough

#honest #may #men #none #roof

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. ↗

— John Milton

#bound #civil #civil liberty #complaints #considered

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#beauty #idiots #makes #merry #sad

For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles. ↗

— Origen

#being #concealed #knew #made #manifest

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. ↗

— Alan Paton

#books #die #end #hard #human