William Shenstone Quotes

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom.

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

Avarice is always poor.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.