“Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.”
More from Lucy Maud Montgomery on Wisdom
“It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.”
“It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.”
“Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.”
“It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.”
“...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.”
“Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.”
“If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.”
“Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.”
Others on Wisdom
Sun Tzu
30 quotes“Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.”
Dalai Lama
22 quotes“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”
Cervantes
20 quotes“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
Aesop
19 quotes“Little by little does the trick.”
Confucius
19 quotes“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.”
Ben Franklin
18 quotes“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
Napoleon
16 quotes“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
Cicero
15 quotes“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
George Washington
14 quotes“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.”
Rudyard Kipling
14 quotes“I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know) Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and...”
Khalil Gibran
14 quotes“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
George R.R. Martin
14 quotes“This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.”