"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."

Scott, Sir Walter on Poetry and Poets
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"Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning."

Evans, Bergen on Wisdom
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"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has."

Billings, Josh on Bigotry
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"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

Frost, Robert on Poetry and Poets
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"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom."

Therous, Phyllis on Mistakes
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"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

Dickens, Charles on Love
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Knowledge
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"The person of wisdom is the person of years."

Young on Age and Aging
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"Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be."

Lactantius, Lucius C. on Fear
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"Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies."

Billings, Josh on Experience
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"Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied."

Unknown, Source on Wisdom
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"You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God."

Unknown, Source on Wisdom
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"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more."

Harington, John on Books - Reading
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on Love
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"Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men."

Proverb, Spanish on Knowledge
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"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more."

Cowper, William on Knowledge
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"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."

Johnson, Samuel on Secrets
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"Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it."

Unknown, Source on Wisdom
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"Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech."

Evangel on Wisdom
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"Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces."

Solon on Wealth
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"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."

Saroyan, William on Wisdom
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"Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely"

Brown, Pam on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."

Hoffer, Eric on Friends and Friendship
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"Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine."

Dickens, Charles on Company
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another."

Ebers, George on Friends and Friendship
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"Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."

Eliot, George on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous."

Bierce, Ambrose on Acquaintance
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"The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Judgment and Judges
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"I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other."

Byron, Lord on Friends and Friendship
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

Washington, George on Friends and Friendship
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"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Friends and Friendship
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"The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

Lewis, C. S. on Friends and Friendship
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"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."

Smith, Sydney on Compatibility
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