Few of the many proverb

 Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action
  Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay

 Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
  Thomas Macaulay

 Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
  Thomas Macaulay

 The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

 The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad
  Samuel Johnson

 The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clu
  John Ruskin

 Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land
  Arthur Helps

 Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish

 During this time of war, it is absolutely the wrong time for our federal government to step back from any of its commitments to our veterans. To do so would be penny wise but pound foolish,

 In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
  George Santayana

 If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

 If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

 Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish

 I think the wise course of action, the compassionate course of action, the better course of action would have been to immediately invite her in to the ranch,


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