Ficticious Wisdom

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. - Doctor Who

French Author Wisdom

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Universalist Wisdom

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. - Samuel McChord Crothers

First Lady Wisdom

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Newspaper Columnist Wisdom

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley

Author Wisdom

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. - Franklin P. Jones

Playwrite Wisdom

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. - Jean Kerr

44th Presidential Wisdom

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barack Obama

Columnist Wisdom

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. - Herb Caen

Cartoonist Wisdom

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charles M. Schulz

British Science Fiction Author Wisdom

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke

Mathematician Philosopher Wisdom

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. - Bertrand Russell

Pro Basketball Player Wisdom

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. - Mo Udall

Artistic Director Wisdom

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. - Barbara Tober

Genetisist Wisdom

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things. - J. B. S. Haldane

Dead President Wisdom

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. - Abraham Lincoln

Philosopher Wisdom

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. - Voltaire

Ancient Greek Wisdom

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. - Dandemis

Literary Critic Wisdom

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. - Anatole Broyard

Canadian Novelist Wisdom

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. - Robertson Davies

Theological Wisdom

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. - Kahlil Gibran

Psychiatric Wisdom

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross