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• A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that 's never read,-- To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
  This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school....
• When Eudaemonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he
  but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets....
• Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it.
• He that never changed any of his opinions never corrected any of his mistake
  and he who was never wise enough to find out any mistakes in himself will not be charitable enough to excuse mistakes in others....
• Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. -- La Fontaine
• The wise never marry. and when they marry they become otherwise.
• A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a Unicorn.