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Quotes from The Wisdom of the Wise — John Oliver Hobbes

1867–1906 United States

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7 quotes

What a man has done bores everybody, but what he is going to do is always delightful.

The Wisdom of the Wise (1900)

If women thought less of their own souls and more about men's tempers, marriage wouldn't he what it is.

The Wisdom of the Wise (1900)

The wisest are those who can best adjust their disadvantages.

The Wisdom of the Wise (1900)

My dear, a man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife or his friends—he has to devote himself wholly to his enemies!

The Wisdom of the Wise (1900)

Reason! A fool can give more reasons for his folly than a saint can urge for his wisdom. We have five senses, but only one conscience. That explains everything. The game is unequal.

The Wisdom of the Wise (1900)

... political reputations are made by saying what you think, and they are kept by saying what you don't think!

The Wisdom of the Wise (1900)

... every man is practically three men. There is the man you know before he proposes: there is the man you have accepted: there is the man you have married.

The Wisdom of the Wise (1900)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Oliver Hobbes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.