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wise words-of-wisdom godmother
Charles Dickens This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
wise men may
Charles Caleb Colton A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
wise money thinking
Charles Caleb Colton It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
wise light fire
Charles Caleb Colton If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.
wise art moments
Charles Caleb Colton The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise heart wine
Charles Caleb Colton Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
wise foolish gravity
Charles Caleb Colton Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
wise men thinking
Charles Caleb Colton He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
words-of-wisdom cheerful poor
Charles Dickens Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
words-of-wisdom records trials
Charles Dickens Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
words-of-wisdom classic trifles
Charles Dickens Trifles make the sum of life.
words-of-wisdom said being-true
Charles Dickens Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
words-of-wisdom speech earnest
Charles Dickens A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
words-of-wisdom crowds noise
Charles Dickens Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
words-of-wisdom surprise me-alone
Charles Dickens Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
words-of-wisdom littles captains
Charles Dickens Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.
words-of-wisdom causes obvious
David Hume The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.
godmother good-things lost
Charles Dickens Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
godmother fairy fairy-godmother
Eartha Kitt The public has become my fairy godmother.
godmother fairy fairy-godmother
Charlaine Harris Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.
godmother needs fairy
Allison Pearson Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?
godmother creepy harry-dresden
Jim Butcher The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.