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Wisdom

«Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.»
«Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next»
Author: Charles Simmons | About: Wisdom
«Love the music in yourself, not yourself in the music.»
«Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off!»
«Many people have died for what they believe... the real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.»
«Money is the wise man's religion»
Author: Euripides | About: Money, Religion, Wisdom
«Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.»
Author: Publilius Syrus | About: Advice, Wisdom | Keywords: advice, profit, receive
«More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author, Pilot, Writer) | About: Wisdom | Keywords: in all, latent
«Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Foolishness, Wisdom
«More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.»