#wise

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#alone #believe #everyone #i #i do

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#beware #chances #day #late #may

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#fight #gets #keep #kimonos #knees

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#back #comes #fear #forth #future

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#finally #fool #man #once #wise

Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

#know #mean #months #otherwise #six

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#born #bred #breeding #capable #different

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#bare #bring #callousness #condemnation #despised

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#days #frequently #now #take #than

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#learning #like #merely #more #never