#wise

Right before the game, she strolled up to me. "Hey, Seaweed Brain." "Will you stop calling me that?" She knows I hate that name, mostly because I never have a good comeback. She's the daughter of Athena, which doesn't give me a lot of ammunition. I mean, "Owl-head" and "Wise Girl" are kind of lame insults. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#demigod #demigod-files #insults #percy-jackson #put-downs

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#confined #few #generation #lies #men

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

— Joseph Addison

#good #great #grow #laughter #life

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. ↗

— Aeschylus

#profitable #seem #thing #wise

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise. ↗

— Aeschylus

#man #many #profitable #things #wise

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. ↗

— Aeschylus

#gods #man #mark #misfortune #rail

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. ↗

— Aeschylus

#better #counsel #ever #good #nor

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things. ↗

— Aeschylus

#does #itself #man #reckon #self-will

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god. ↗

— Josef Albers

#god #italy #likewise #now #scientist

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh. ↗

— Steve Albini

#am #case #commercially #crazy #currently