Correct A Wise Man

A quiet fool is half a sage. - Yiddish Proverb

The Child is father of the Man. - William Wordsworth

Every man over 40 is a scoundrel. - George Bernard Shaw

A man must learn to forgive himself. - Arthur Davis Ficke

Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

Wise is the man who knows he has enough. - Unknown

Man is free at the instant he wants to be. - Voltaire

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. - Will Rogers

Any fool can criticize, and many of them do. - Cyril Garbett

One man's meat is another man's poison. - Lucretius

The measure of a man is what he does with power. - Pittacus

Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is. - Jimmy Durante

The wise person questions himself, the fool others. - Henri Arnold

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. - Jean Rostand

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. - African Proverb

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - Edgar Watson Howe

As Unto The Bow The Cord Is, So Unto The Man Is Woman - Longfellow

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. - Saint John Chrysostom

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. - Ovid

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. - Jonathan Swift

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. - Benjamin Disraeli

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. - Pope John XXIII

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry. - Abraham Lincoln

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. - William Blake

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. - Andrew Carnegie

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. - Anna Quindlen

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. - Jonathan Swift

Man is a complex being: He makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. - Gil Stern

A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. - Mahatma Gandhi

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. - H L Mencken

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. - Henry Miller

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. - Mark Twain

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. - Erica Jong

I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here. - Groucho Marx

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. - Samuel Butler

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. - Leo Rosten

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. - African Proverb

If you need something done ask a busy man, no one else will have time to do it. - Unknown

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. - Henry David Thoreau

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. - Samuel Johnson

I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. - Abraham Lincoln

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas. - Mason Cooley

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet. - Robin Williams

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. - Roger Bannister

See how the boy is with his sister and you can know how the man will be with your daughter. - Sioux Proverb

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. - Le Corbusier

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. - Alan Paton

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway. - Albert Einstein

He who devotes 16 hours a day to hard study may become as wise at 60 as he thought himself at 20. - Mary Wilson Little

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes. - Elvis Presley

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. - George R.R. Martin

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. - Sir Richard Steele

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. - Mark Twain

If a man must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most. - E.B. White

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. - Robert Frost

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela

The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves... all that a man achieves or fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. - James Allen

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man. - Andres Segovia

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. - Publilius Syrus

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. - Charles De Gaulle