William Shenstone Quotes

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.

For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

It's always better to be wise than to be smart.

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

cleverness is a disease.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.