Francis Quarles Quotes

Good advice is rarer than rubies.

A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsel

It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.

The wise man is seldom prudent.

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

I'd like to just get to a point where maybe we can say something that will be matterful. That's definitely not a word, by the way.

To please the many is to displease the wise.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

Especially females and the younger ones like to be with somebody who is wise.

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.

Small pitchers have wyde eares.

Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden gust shall sink it: Praise a wise man, and speed him on his way; for he carrieth the ballast of humility, And is glad when his course is cheered by the sympathy of brethren ashore.

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.