wisdom Quotes

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.