Wise Quotes

One of the most beautiful feelings a person can experience is love. It inspires us to be better individuals and encourages us to express our feelings. But it is very rare that wisedom and love are found together, as it has been said, they make strange bedfellows. When we fall in love we are more often than not ruled by our heart and not our head so wisdom, although sorely needed in this situation, is ignored. Here are a few wise quotes on love from a few smart people, that in all probability, fell into the same trap, but maybe learnt from it.

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to be with for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.

Robert Herrick

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you’ve made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.

Author Unknown

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Emily Dickinson

Love brought us together as husband and wife, And gave each of us a best friend for life.

You don’t marry someone you can live with, you marry the person you cannot live without.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

I’ve fallen in love many times… always with you.

Your love gives me happiness, joy and delight;
You’re the sun in my morning, the moon in my night,
You’re the one that I cherish, the love of my life;
And I truly am blessed, that we are husband and wife.

True love is like a pair of socks… you gotta have two and they’ve gotta match!

Within you, I lose myself. Without you, I find myself wanting to be lost again.

unknown

Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice but falling in love with you I had no control over.

Author Unknown

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

Rabindranath Tagore

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St Vincent Millay

Before I met you I never knew what it was like; to look at someone and smile for no reason.

Unknown

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

Robert Sexton

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Friedrich Halm

If kisses were the water I would give you the sea, if hugs were the leaves I would give you a tree, but if love was time, I would give you eternity.

Author Unknown

Thank you for your sweet, sweet love You’ll never truly know Just how happy that you make me And how much I love you so.

Unknown

If it is wrong to love you, then my heart just won’t let me be right.

Author Unknown

You are my strength but loving you is my biggest weakness.

Author Unknown

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Kahlil Gibran

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see. The pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears

William Shakespeare

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Louis Ginsberg

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss

 

The feeling of love is impossible to express in words. The emotions that rage in the heart cannot be checked, however, over the years many have attempted to harness this sensation and put in on paper. The wise quotes on love is an attempt at that medium, but like hundreds of others in the past that have put wise quotes together, we will never really control, or understand, such a strong emotion.

We all experience certain phases in our lives when we have to let go of things even when we do not wish so. Also, there are times when we face a situation which can crumble our ambitions and aspirations. At this moment of time, hope and motivation are the only things that can help us out of it, but some of us find it easier to use a little humour and try to see the funny side of life, so here are some witty wise quotes to help cheer you up and pull you through.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Robert Bloch

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Unknown

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Henry Kissinger

The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.

Unknown

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.

Cathy Carlyle

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Unknown

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

A person who can explain color to a blind man can explain everything in life.

Unknown

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you’re wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

Clint Eastwood

If you rest, you rust.

Helen Hayes

Life’s more amusing than we thought.

Andrew Lang

I enjoy life. I think I’ll enjoy death even more.

Cat Stevens

You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.

Flip Wilson

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.

Andy Rooney

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

George Carlin

If all the world’s a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

Paul Beatty

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.

Jack Handey

I always wait for the times each morning. I look at the obituary column and if I’m not in it, I go to work.

A.E.Matthews

In life, it’s not who you know that’s important, it’s how your wife found out.

Joey Adams

There are only two tragedies in life, one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Mark Twain

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering, and it’s all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Lou Erickso

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Will Rogers

“Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Thomas Aloysius Dorgan

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about.

Sam Ewing

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life, you just hang around until you get used to it.

Charles Schulz

Funny thing how you first meet the woman that you marry. I first met the wife in a tunnel of love. She was digging it

Les Dawson

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

John Barrymore

It’s better to have loved and lost than to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

Laurence J Peter

You can’t buy love on eBay.

Anonymous

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

Unknown

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.  David Bissonnette

Love is so confusing – you tell a girl she looks great and what’s the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

Robert Orben

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

Henry Youngman

Forget love, I’d rather fall in chocolate.

Sandra J. Dykes

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin

There is not much more I can say on witty wise quotes and honestly, there is nothing as such to define what they all are about, but to put it simply, wise quotes sometimes seem to make more sense with a bit of added humour.

 

 

Wisdom is something we all have, but many of us don’t know how to use it to our best advantage. Often right when we need it, is when it deserts us, but there is usually always a friend or mentor nearby that you can call on for some advice, and then of course there are the wise quotes found here that can add some inspiration and wisdom to your situation.

 

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler

Albert Einstein

Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent – that is what wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Akhenaton

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

Buddha

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Stephen Covey

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

William Saroyan

Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Kahlil Gibran

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thomas Jefferson

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Lao Tzu

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How are you finding these wise quotes, keep reading there are more to come.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Failure lies not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up.

Chinese proverb

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Eugene F. Ware

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock

Unknown .

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.

African Proverb

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C. S. Lewis

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

Ivy Baker Priest

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Mathew 6:34

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Albert Einstein

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.

Dave Weinbaum

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

Brendan Francis

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting.

Buddha

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.

T.S. Eliot

There is a lot of sense in the wise quotes above, and something there for everyone. If you are in a place where you need some guidance, then I trust there were some words there for you. If you need something more humorous check out our Witty Wise Quotes.