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In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
Thomas Shepard on wisdom

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin Henry Fischer on wisdom

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.
John Bigelow on wisdom

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
Nina Totenberg on wisdom

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
Stanford Moore on wisdom

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis Hutcheson on wisdom

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
Lord John Russell on wisdom

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. on wisdom

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt on women

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
Marilyn Monroe on women

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Friedrich Nietzsche on women

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on women

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon on women

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
Bill Cosby on women

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare on women

No doubt exists that all women are crazy it's only a question of degree.
W. C. Fields on women

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco Chanel on women

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Groucho Marx on women

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw on women

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'
Anna Quindlen on women