Aphorisms
“It just takes one thing to make everything come crashing
down.”
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is
nothing if the audience is deaf.”
“It seems that true character often isn’t revealed until a
person is faced with temptation.”
“It seems to me ridiculous, when I am not able to know
myself, to investigate irrelevant things.”
“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life
is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated
during the first half.”
“It takes a ‘grown-up’ to make a relationship work.”
“It takes a fool for a wise man to be called wise!”
“It takes a while to notice that they are laughing at you
and not with you. When you mess up, that’s their
entertainment. It’s only then when I know who my true
friends are because everything is not as they seem. You
have to learn how life works on your own.”
“It takes courage to stand up and speak out for your own
beliefs. It requires wisdom to sit down and listen to
someone else’s.”
“It takes hard work to get a great reward. It takes wisdom
to maintain the reward.”
“It takes knowledge to stop doing something wrong, but it
takes wisdom to keep doing something right.”
“It takes nothing to be a quitter, but everything not to be.”
139