And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.

-Pope, Alexander
  Odyssey, bk.14, l.520^1.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much.

-Pope, Alexander
  An Essay on Man, epistle 2, l.1^12.

Un fol enseigne bien un sage. A fool has a lot to teach a wise man.

-Rabelais, Fran c° ois
  Tiers Livre, pt.37.

Great Negative, how vainly would the wise Enquire, define, distinguish, teach, devise, Didst thou not stand to point their blind Philosophies.

-Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of
c.1673  'Upon Nothing', stanza10 (published1679).

God bless our good and gracious King Whose promise none relies on, Who never said a foolish thing Nor ever did a wise one.

-Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of
Of Charles II (published1707).The verse was later changed to an epitaph ('Here lies a great and mighty king†').

No rules,however wise, area substituteforaffectionand tact.

-Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl
  In Praise of Idleness,'Education and Discipline'.

I don't consider myself dovish and I certainly don't consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishöthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.

-Schwarzkopf, H Norman
  In the NewYorkTimes, 28 Jan.

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: 'Follow thou me!' and setsustothetaskswhich Hehastofulfil forour time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple,He will reveal Himself inthetoils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who He is.

-Schweitzer, Albert
  Von Reimarus zuWrede (translated byW Montgomery as The Quest for the HistoricalJesus,1910).

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stop- light. The truly wise person is colour-blind.

-Schweitzer, Albert
  Quoted in CBS News tribute,14 Jan. US film director.With films such asTaxi Driver (1976) and Raging Bull   (1980),   he   established  himself   as   one   of   the   foremost directors of his generation.

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  Prometheus Unbound act1, l.625^7.

   I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'Epipsychidion', l.149^53.

The vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language to another the creations of a poet. 786 The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
A Defence of Poetry.

Y si evitas la s|¤filis, siguiendo la sabia profilaxia, al llegar los cuarenta ira¤  s sintiendo un principio de ataxia. And if you manage to avoid syphilis by following a wise course of prophylaxis, when you turn forty you will feel the beginnings of ataxia.

-Sillitoe, Alan
  Gotas amargas,'Filosof |¤ as' ('Philosophies').

Immortal, invisible,God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blesse'  d, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious,Thy great name we praise.

-Smith,Walter Chalmers
  'Immortal, Invisible', hymn.

Wise men fish here.

-Steloff, Frances
Sign for Gotham Book Mart. Quoted in the NewYorkTimes, 30 Dec1987.

Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green, Or where his beams may not dissolve the ice, In temperate heat, where he is felt and seen, With proud people, in presence sad and wise; Set me in base, or yet in high degree, In the long night, or in the shortest day, In clear weather, or where mists thickest be, In lusty youth, or when my hairs be grey† Yours will I be, and with that only thought Comfort myself when that my hap is nought.

-Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
'Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green'.

Passionless bride, divineTranquillity, Yearned after by the wisest of the wise, Who fail to find thee, being as thou art Without one pleasure and without one pain.

-Tennyson
  'Lucretius',1.265^8.

For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven: wherefore thou be wise, Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt. 848

-Tennyson
  'TheAncient Sage',1.66^8.

Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide; The Form remains, the function never dies; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish;öbe it so!

-Wordsworth,William
  The River Duddon, no.34,'After-Thought', l.5^9.

Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!

-Wordsworth,William
  'To a Skylark', l.11^12 (published1827).