Wise Quotes of Wisdom: A Lifetime Collection of Quotes, Sayings, Philosophies, Viewpoints and Thoughts

By R.A. Wise

The woman who raised me had many interesting sayings.
Realizing that the wisdom of the universe was in those quotes,
I set out to record as many of them as I could. The sources
are many.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Aug 9, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456767846

R.A. Wise

Ruth was born in Kentucky in a discouraging environment with a bleak future. Claiming to be allergic to stupidity she sought wisdom wherever she could find it. It manifest itself the most through quotations.

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WISE QUOTES OF WISDOM Vol I

R.A. Wise

© February 12, 2011

This book is the first in this series. It contains a varietyof philosophies collected over a lifetime. The quotes them-selves are listed in alphabetical order and not by topic. Theauthor recognizes that there is more than one way to make astatement and therefore some quotes may appear more thanonce. The book also contains additional sayings separatedby source.

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Contents

Preface

Dedication

Chapter 1

Quotes

Chapter 2

Kung Fu

Chapter 3

Star Trek: Next Generation

Preface

The woman who raised me had many interesting sayings.Realizing that the wisdom of the universe was in those quotes,I set out to record as many of them as I could. The sourcesare many.

Credit has been given to as many of the originators aspossible. Recorded herein are the ones that intrigued meat the time for one reason or another. Over time, though,my outlook, attitude and tastes have changed, but I did notremove those quotes that no long suit my values. They maybe removed from the next edition.

Dedication

to my friend Raj, for whom without this book would not havebeen necessary.

Chapter 1

Quotes

Hello, he lied.-Don Carpenter quoting a Hollywood agent

Shut up! he explained.-Ring Lardner

20 years from now you will be more disappointed by thethings you didn’t do than by the ones you did do; so throwoff the bowlines, sail away from the safe harborcatch thetrade winds in your sails...explore...dream...discover.-MarkTwain

4 out of 3 people have trouble with fractions.-bumpersticker

42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.50% of success is showing up.-Wally, Dilbert character

80% of success is showing up.-Woody Allen

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

A bad cow is better than none.-Irish proverb

A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it’s an undo-it-yourself project.-Abigail Van Buren

A banker: the person who lends you his umbrella when thesun is shining & wants it back the minute it rains.-MarkTwain

A beard creates lice, not brains.-Ammianus

A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless youfail to make the turn.-Successories

A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it all addsup to real money.-Everett Dirksen 1896—1969

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.-Cervantes

A boy can learn a lot from a dog...obedience, loyalty, &the importance of turning around three times before lyingdown.-Robert Benchley (1889-1945)

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, whichis more than can be said for human beings.-William RalphInge

A cat can purr its way out of anything.-Donna McCro-han

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up likea pocket handkerchief if it wants to.-Dr Louis J Camuti

A character is like an acrostic...read it forward, backwardor across, it still spells the same thing.-Emerson

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.-Ralph Waldo Emer-son 1803—1882

A child’s face can say it all. Especially the mouth part.-Nell Lochner

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.-Larry tCg

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.-WilliamArthur Ward

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there isno strain upon it.-H.W. Beecher

A college education shows a man how little other peopleknow.-T.C. Haliburton

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured &then quietly strangled.-Sir Barnett Cocks ca. 1907

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more thanhe loves himself.-Josh Billings

A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts. proverb

A failed innovation is painful; a revival of it is sinister.-Coco Chanel, 1972 bio

A favor ill-placed is great waste.

A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool, usually hashis suspicions.-Wilson Mizner

A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

A flea-bitten fool made this foolish remark

As he blew out the light: They can’t see in the dark.

A fool & his money are soon parted.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.-Boileau

A friend in power is a friend lost.-Henry Adams 1838-1918

A friend is like a good bra...hard to find, supportive, com-fortable, there to lift you up & is always close to your heart.-femail creations

A full belly makes a dull brain.-Franklin

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.-Lana Turner

A gentleman will not insult me, & no man not a gentle-man can insult me.-Frederick Douglass

A goal is a dream with a deadline.-Leo B. Helzer

A goal: is writing history in advance!

A good anvil does not fear the hammer.

A good deed never goes unpunished.-Gore Vidal

A good face is a letter of recommendation.-Queen Eliz-abeth

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.-William Thack-eray

A good Samaritan is nothing but a good target.-MartinCrane, Frasier

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory &hopes other people haven’t.-Irvin S. Cobb

A government big enough to give you everything you wantis strong enough to take everything you have.-Thomas Jef-ferson

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always de-pend on the support of Paul.-George Bernard Shaw

A great many people think they are thinking when theyare merely rearranging their prejudices.-William James

A gross [fat] belly does not produce a refined mind.

A hell of a fat chance my orange bears had.-KennethPatchen

A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.-SamuelButler

A hint is something that we often drop but rarely pick up.

A horse may be coaxed to drink, but a pencil must be lead.-Stan Laurel

A house is made of walls and beams;a home is built with love and dreams.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradationwhich we bear in ourselves.-Simone

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve hasbeen extracted.-Helen Rowland 1876—1950

A joke is a very serious thing.-Winston Churchill

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.-CharlesLamb

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.-Michael Pollan

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.-Seneca

A liar needs a good memory.-Quintilian

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellowman, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.-G. Gordon Liddy

A lie makes it half-way around the world before the truthhas a chance to get its pants on.-Winston Churchill

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.-Lenin

A literary critic is a person who finds meaning in litera-ture that the author didn’t know was there.

A lot of yesterday’s solutions are today’s problems.-Sen.Sam Nunn, D-Ga

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who neverowned a car.-Carrie Snow

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a womanmakes nineteen or twenty mistakes, right away she’s a tramp.-Joan Rivers

A man can’t very well make for himself a place in the sun ifhe keeps continually taking refuge under the family tree.

A man is incomplete until he is married...Then he is fin-ished.-Zsa Zsa Gabor

A man is known by the company he avoids.-Unknown

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.-John Barrymore

A man never shows his own character so plainly as by theway he portrays another’s.-J.P. Richter

A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappyuntil he can get out of it.-Galsworthy

A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.

A man wants to be a woman’s first love, a woman wantsto be his last.-Oscar Wilde

A man who boasts only of his ancestors confesses that hebelongs to a family that is better dead than alive.

A man who travels with a family of 5 persons may lay hisaccount with a number of mortifications.-Tobias Smollett,1761

A man without imagination has no wings.-MuhammadAli

A man would rather be deceived than convinced that theopinion he formed of a person at first sight was incorrect.

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desireis for the desire of the man.-Coleridge

A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman’sgot to do what he can’t.-Rhonda Hansome

A man’s house is his hassle.

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fightthat hasn’t started yet.-George Burns

A matter of internal securitythe age-old cry of the oppressor.-Captain Piccard, The Hunted

A mind, stretched to a new idea or sensation, never shrinksback to its former dimensions.-Oliver Wendell Holmes

A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitudeof funerals a doctor.-Seneca

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.-GoreVidal A new broom sweeps clean.-Boston T. Party

A New England conscience doesn’t keep you from doing any-thing, it just keeps you from enjoying it.-Mendell

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into

words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and diesof old age in a day.-Jim Bishop

A painting of a rice cake does not satisfy hunger.-Ancientsaying

A penny saved is a penny earned.-Benjamin FranklinA penny saved is a penny.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soonloses both.-Dwight D. Eisenhower

A person all wrapped up in himself generally makes a prettysmall package.-E. Joseph Cossman

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as thejoke he resents.-G.C. Lichtenberg

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon with-out springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.-HenryWard Beecher

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody as nasty as him-self & hates them for it.-George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise whenopportunity knocks.

A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun.-Dupins

A pile of rocks ceases to be a pile of rocks when somebodycontemplates it with the ideas of a cathedral in mind.-St.Exupery

A political speech should be like a woman’s skirt-longenough to be respectable short enough to be interesting.-Adam Clayton Powell

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.-Aliibn Abi Talib

A professional is someone who can do his best work whenhe doesn’t feel like it.-Alistair Cooke

A proof that experience is of no use is that the end of onelove does not prevent us from beginning another.-PaulBourget

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.-Cervantes

A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depressionis when you have no belt to tighten. When you’ve lost yourtrousers-you’re in the airline business.-Sir Adam Thomson

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

A righteous man carefully considers the welfare of his an-imals.-Bible

A river flows smoothly only after a lifetime of passion &

purpose.-SuccessoriesA rolling stone gathers no moss.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.-Joshua Reynolds

A rumor goes in one ear & out many mouths.-Chineseproverb

A schedule defends from chaos & whim.-Annie Dillard

A shady business never yields a sunny life.-B.C. Forbes

A ship in the harbor is safe-but that is not what shipswere made for.-Successories

A single breaker may recede, but the tide is evidently com-ing in.-Macaulay

A single conversation across the table with a wise man isworth a month’s study of books.

A single gram of gold can be stretched into a thread morethan one mile long.-Omni magazine

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwritingon the wall, claims it is a forgery.-Morris Bender

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.-PhyllisDiller

A smile is the shortest distance between two people.-VictorBorge

A society of sheep must in time beget a government ofwolves.-Betrand de Juvenal

A society that defines freedom largely in terms of rights ¬ responsibilities & encourages moral license but discour-ages political engagement diminishes the individual. Ratherthan enlarging the human spirit, we make the spirit meaner.-Richard Eckersley, Australia

A son could bear complacently the death of his father, whilethe loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.-Machivelli

A stumble may prevent a fall.-English Proverb

A sucker is born every minute.-Phineas T. Barnum

A sufficient commentary on human nature is that a mobnever rushes madly across town to do a needed kindness.

A suicide is a sentinal who has abandoned his post.-Chesterton, Roman Catholic philosopher

A table saw is a particularly good tool for removing sparefingers; routers & joiners will work in a pinch.-Steve Batie

A thief believes everybody steals.-Edgar Watson Howe

A third of the food we eat keeps us alive. The other two-thirds keeps the doctors alive.-Orson Wells

A tree is the spirit of the yard, & a pet is the soul of thehouse.-Ruth A. Wise

A true friend is someone who thinks you are a good eggeven though they know you are slightly cracked.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in matu-rity and once more in old age, as a fine building shouldbe seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.-Robertson Davies

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on adetour.

A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.-Samuel Goldwyn

A vision without the ability to execute is probably a hal-lucination.-Stephen Case

A weed is a plant growing in the wrong place; even bluegrassis a weed in your flower bed, a spot it seems to actually pre-fer to the lawn just a foot away.-Steve Batie

A weed is a plant who’s virtues have not been discovered[yet].-Emerson

A winner is nourished by the positive; a loser nibbles atthe negative.-Lewis Timberlake

A wise man