Johnny Mercer Quotes

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet

Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

A wise man can be a fool in love.

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

The wise are wise only because they love.

We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it.

Angry people are not always wise.

To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised by the love of God. That will guarantee a good life.

Those alone are wise who know how to love.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhaps we must acknowledge the justness of the distinction which assigns to man the sphere of wisdom, and to woman that of love, though neither belongs exclusively to either. Man is continually saying to woman, Why will you not be more wise? Woman is continually saying to man, Why will you not be more loving? It is not in their wills to be wise or to be loving; but, unless each is both wise and loving, there can be neither wisdom nor love.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.