"Seven wise men on an old black settle, Seven wise men of the Mermaid Inn, Ringing blades of the one right metal, What is the best that a blade can win?"

"Qui aura esté une fois bien fol ne sera nulle aultre fois bien sage."

"Le sage vit tant qu'il doibt, non pas tent qu'il peut."

"The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene."

"Il est bon de frotter et limer notre cervelle centre celle d'autrui."

"A little too wise they say do ne'er live long."

"Wisdom is justified of her children."

"Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."

"Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise."

"Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit."

"Il est plus aisé d'être sage pour les autres, que pour soi-même."

"Victrix fortunæ sapientia."

"Away, thou strange justifier of thyself, to be wiser than thou wert, by the event."

"Great men are not always wise."

"Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom."

"The price of wisdom is above rubies."

"Wisdom shall die with you."

"He taketh the wise in their own craftiness."

"Quis nam igitur liber? Sapiens qui sibi imperiosus."

"Sapere aude."

"Utiliumque sagax rerum et divina futuri."

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

"In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!"

"For never, never, wicked man was wise."

"Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But, wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice."

"The heart is wiser than the intellect."

"Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit."

"Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise."

"No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked."

"Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret."

"The words of the wise are as goads."

"In much wisdom is much grief."

"Who are a little wise the best fools be."

"But they whom truth and wisdom lead Can gather honey from a weed."

"Some people are more nice than wise."

"Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart."

"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise."

"The wisdom of our ancestors."

"A wise man is out of the reach of fortune."

"To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do."

"Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom."

"Teach me my days to number, and apply My trembling heart to wisdom."

"But wisdom, awful wisdom! which inspects, Discerns, compares, weighs, separates, infers, Seizes the right, and holds it to the last."

"The man of wisdom is the man of years."

"Wisdom, though richer than Peruvian mines, And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive, What is she, but the means of happiness? That unobtain'd, than folly more a fool."

"Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life."

"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows."