wisdom Quotes

I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.

I have not permitted myself gentlemen to conclude that i am the best man in the country but i am reminded in this connection of a story of an old dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that it... ...

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I am rather inclined to silence and whether that be wise or not it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.