wiser quotes

   But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.

- Rupert Chawner Brooke
  'There's Wisdom in Women'.

Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man tobeguided by thewiser, tobe, gentlyor forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

-Thomas Carlyle
  Chartism, ch.6.

In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

- Edward Gibbon
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.6.

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

-John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes (of Tilton)
  Of  Woodrow Wilson. The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.

-John Pomfret
  'Reason'. French  mistress  of  Louis  XV.  Installed  at Versailles  (1745),  she assumed  control  of   public   affairs   and   swayed   state   policy, appointing  her  favourites.  She  was  a  lavish  patron  of  the  arts and literature.

Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky! Ayoung man will be wiser byand by; An old man's wit may wander ere he die.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'The Coming of Arthur', l.402^4.

We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.

- Anthony Trollope
  Stavely. Orley Farm, ch.18.