Lermontov: Why do you want to dance?
Vicky: Why do you want to live?
Lermontov: Well, I don't know exactly why, but... I must.
Vicky: That's my answer too.


The Red Shoes

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CHINA MIéVILLE
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DONNA GRANT
Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
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E. E. CUMMINGS
O woman,
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and blac...
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I...
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Did you really want to die?"
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Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?”
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BRENT WEEKS
Why poetry, you ask?
Because of life, I answer.
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“Wangoballwime?”
J.K. ROWLING
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If I am just living to fight
Why am I trying to see.
Whe...
TUPAC SHAKUR
Faythe, it's me!"
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RACHEL VINCENT
I hope you don't really see yourself that way," I said.
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KATIE ALENDER
I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's ...
WAYNE GRETZKY
Why it's simply impassible!
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Door: No, I do mean imp...
LEWIS CARROLL
You know what?” His breath was warm against my cheek. “There are a lot of stupid things to do, b...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
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- No.
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I want t...
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NICKI MINAJ
People are always trying to understand.
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IDRIES SHAH
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And I'm not sure you know
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AVRIL LAVIGNE
Off fucking shitty mankind, you change the topic... you say something I say something against and im...
DEYTH BANGER
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DEYTH BANGER
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ANGELA CARTER
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HUGH HOWEY
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Linus: “Yes, I do. It’s why I’v...
SAMUEL TAYLOR
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—I don't want to lose you
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I want to go home.”
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JULIE CONNOR
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Why this cake?
The day of my birth
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to be better.
I
have battled with things
...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON
Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?'
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LAUREN OLIVER
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Today, many will awaken with a fresh sense of inspiration. Why not you?
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RICK RIORDAN
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I broke something, Old Man.
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DEYTH BANGER
If I can live life the way I want to, why can't you do it.
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-I would die for you
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M
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Isn't your brain distributed through your entire body?<...
HOWARD TAYLER
Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,
And one arm bent across your sullen cold
E...
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
You want to beat Peter?" she asked
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ORSON SCOTT CARD
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"You were jealou...
RICK RIORDAN
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where yo...
KOFI ANNAN
Knock! knock!
who's there?
me!
me who?
that's right?
what's right?
mee...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect ch...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
Tell me where the swans go in the winter
I need to know if the mute ones can sing.

T...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Just tell me what's so irritating."(katsu)
That's none of your damn business!"(kyok)
Maybe...
NATSUKI TAKAYA
No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch."
"Good," Sanjit said.
"Good? Why good...
MICHAEL GRANT
I love you in order to begin loving you,
to start infinity again
and never to stop loving ...
PABLO NERUDA
Me: I think we should have sex again.
Royce: Bad idea.
Me: Why?
Royce: I want more fr...
GENA SHOWALTER
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JULIE KAGAWA
If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER
Do you know?
What the fuck do women want?
l know what you want: everything.
CHRIS ROCK
L: You want me just to be your... friend?

E: You want the truth? I think you're my guardi...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
I want to drag you off and hide you away,” he whispered.
“Why?”
“I always knew y...
ANN AGUIRRE
Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your body?'
And why are you doing this t...
LOUISE O'NEILL
Put down your glass,
it is time to dance.
If you want to get drunk
all you need is...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Why is my love for you, dyed in wool?
What is the hindrance to moving on?

Why in lov...
ZUBAIR AHSAN
We need to be together."
"Why?" I asked softly. The word was carried away on the wind, but he ...
RICHELLE MEAD
Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager."

"Right, that's w...
JOHN GREEN
She threw up her hands. "All right. Why not?"

Why not?"

Sure."

H...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS
He leaned closer to me and then seemed shocked as he realized what he was doing.

"Why wou...
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(There are so many If's like Why's, why there, if there... but why?? Look again I say this word!) DEYTH BANGER

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And I never felt more alive, until I spread my wings and flew away. Flew away with the ravens. It wa...
THE RED RAVEN
The more I see, the less I know, the more I'd like to let it go.
THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've ...
RED SKELTON
I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.
RED SKELTON
Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.
RED BARBER
I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
RED SMITH
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. ...
RED SKELTON
If I may I would like to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and give you a definition for each word. RED SKELTON The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
RED AUERBACH
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
RED AUERBACH
When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.
RED BARBER
The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
RED AUERBACH
He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
RED AUERBACH
One of the standing jokes of Congress is that the new Congressman always spends the first week wonde...
RED SKELTON
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
RED BUTTONS
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
RED SANDERS
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while fo...
RED AUERBACH
Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it ta...
RED DELICIOUS
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while f...
RED AUERBACH
You whites make all the ammunition.
RED CLOUD
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur...
RED ADAIR
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
RED AUERBACH
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
RED SKELTON
We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
RED CLOUD
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train...
RED CLOUD
I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.
RED BUTTONS
I don't like to compare clubs or players from way back. It's different today. Your ballparks...
RED SCHOENDIENST
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling...
RED BARBER
Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to ...
RED BUTTONS
When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard t...
RED SCHOENDIENST
Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the b...
RED ADAIR
This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.
RED BARBER
The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.
RED CLOUD
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
RED SKELTON
When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he...
RED BUTTONS
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take ...
RED CLOUD
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
RED AUERBACH
Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.
RED SYMONS
Phil is obviously a good coach. You don't win that many games without being a damn good coach, ... R...
RED AUERBACH
That's something I don't want to get into. I'm here. That's what counts.
RED AUERBACH
Most of your great coaches do some teaching and developing of players. Phil may be able to do it, bu...
RED AUERBACH
The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap...
RED AUERBACH
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
RED AUERBACH
Just do what you do best.
RED AUERBACH
Congress: Bingo with billions.
RED SKELTON
The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not i...
RED GRANGE
I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place...
RED ADAIR
He had splendid conformation-broad shoulders, white hair and erect carriage-and was beautifully turn...
RED SMITH
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players
RED SMITH
I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadc...
RED SCHOENDIENST
Every football player knows when his time is up.
RED GRANGE
The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.
RED ADAIR
Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
RED SKELTON
I don't want to be called 'the greatest' or 'one of the greatest'; let other guys claim to be the be...
RED SKELTON
Last night I had a revelation
Somehow I have to make you pay
It's all about manipulation
RED DELICIOUS
When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.
RED BARBER
It's a strange feeling. He has some of my mannerisms. He's a super guy. The red hair looks good. He ...
RED DAWSON
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampere...
RED HAIRCROW
He is not a candidate. Never has been and won't be. I'm very close to Mack Brown. I have continuous ...
RED MCCOMBS
I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. ...When I was very young as a sportswr...
RED SMITH
Look at him and you'd think he's 16. Talk to him and you think he's 26. Talk baseball with him, and ...
RED SMITH
My best girl is dead.
RED SMITH
Congress: Bingo with billions
RED SKELTON
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I sh...
RED CLOUD
Exercise? I get in on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
RED SKELTON
I personally believe that each of us was put here for a purpose -- to build not to destroy. If I can...
RED SKELTON
No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.
RED SKELTON
God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
RED SKELTON
Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter ho...
RED BARBER
We do not want riches, we want peace and love
RED CLOUD
Getting the goodness of light-skinned society ... Learn to live among them, learn their education, t...
RED CLOUD
It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you'r...
RED ADAIR
I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I ...
RED ADAIR
Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out ...
RED ADAIR
I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a y...
RED ADAIR
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
RED ADAIR
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness...
RED SKELTON
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
RED SMITH
You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't ...
RED BARBER
Plan your trips to conserve fuel. Do not fill up your gas tank unless needed. Lower your top speed b...
RED CAVANEY
From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.
RED MCCOMBS
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling iro...
RED BARBER
It all depends on what the market is, ... When I owned the Spurs, I brought in Larry Brown and paid ...
RED MCCOMBS
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to ...
RED HAIRCROW
I think we need a game, ... We need some hitting and some competition.
RED WINGS
We're going to have to learn the rules and how to play,
RED WINGS
They are going to call that. I think it's more important than ever that you play strong positionally...
RED WINGS
Playing in two-on-twos in the corner, you can't pin a guy and hold him to the boards,
RED WINGS
It really slowed things down. Teams were successful playing that way, but it didn't lead to exciting...
RED WINGS
Let's hope we don't hear that word 'trap' anymore,
RED WINGS
When Mark gets going, ... it's impossible to stop that man.
RED WINGS
You never know, ... We just have to win.
RED WINGS
A sign read "Free drinks for billiards competitors only." Hand-lettered below read "All others will ...
RED TASH
He'd always come in and give us hugs and kisses. He liked being a clown.
RED WILSON
daddy,s little girl
RED SOVINE
Ha ha ha! She's another one of those 16-year-old actresses, and she's making an album. Like, NO!
RED WINGS
I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.
RED SKELTON
A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've been going for three months.' I ...
RED SKELTON
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
RED SKELTON
jovial and in good spirits.
RED WINGS
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
RED BARBER
It's so cold today even the brass monkeys have stayed home!
RED BARBER
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to ...
RED CLOUD
I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.
RED HAIRCROW
You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows...
RED HAIRCROW
If you look broadly across the United States -- with the exception of those Midwest markets -- the i...
RED CAVANEY
Time and again our industry has been cleared of any wrongdoing in these matters, and we are confiden...
RED CAVANEY
A waiver right now would be counterproductive for the consumer over time,
RED CAVANEY
If Lady Luck smiles on us there won't be a third hurricane, ... Probably no one is more sensitive to...
RED CAVANEY
... need pay little attention to the oil and gas sector because we're highly profitable, can fend fo...
RED CAVANEY
The market is working. The prices are falling.
RED CAVANEY
What we are trying to say is, tell us what you want, not how to make it happen, ... and at the end o...
RED CAVANEY
It is becoming increasingly evident that the impact of this storm on oil and natural gas operations ...
RED CAVANEY
I don't predict prices, but I think it will definitely be a downward trend.
RED CAVANEY
What happens when we don't have a year like this one?
RED CAVANEY
I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about...
RED ADAIR
It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when y...
RED ADAIR
I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would m...
RED HAIRCROW
I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being arou...
RED SCHOENDIENST
[The American Petroleum Institute] and its members condemn price gouging.
RED CAVANEY
It was a crypt where music played to masses of the dead, and McJagger was their desolate pharaoh, a ...
RED TASH
It's unfortunate that it took these circumstance to get these games over here, but it will show San ...
RED MCCOMBS
Weird is my personality, Complicated are my words and Mystery I am but those what gets you to like m...
RED DELACHINA
I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.
RED ADAIR
With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.
RED ADAIR
Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's product...
RED ADAIR
Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind ...
RED ADAIR
In a world where nothing exists by itself, where every division of one thing from another is a mispe...
RED PINE
I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive think...
RED TASH
There were lots of things in this lifetime that I'd doubted, precious little I'd known for sure. But...
RED TASH
A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and whe...
RED GRANGE
Making you a pioneer only means one thing. You were around at the time.
RED BUTTONS
I really like the way our team dug down and played hard and gave ourselves a chance.
RED BERENSON
It's a pity that things weren't arranged so that an empty head, like an empty stomach, would not le...
RED GRAY
If they do the movie with as much quality as they're proving to me, they're going to do a great job.
RED DAWSON
and at that time we'll sit down and discuss whether or not Mike wants to work out an extension. If h...
RED MCCOMBS
We were disappointed he didn't want to come here but we know he has a house in Toronto.
RED WINGS
His quarterbacks could pick apart a defense because he taught them to throw precisely.
RED WILSON
It proves what they say, give the public what they want to see and they'll come out for it
RED SKELTON
Well, I can't hang around here all day, I have to go out and take the penguin for a walk.
KRYTEN - RED DWARF
They see in the population’s hostility towards the left only the hostility towards the left, not t...
RED ARMY FACTION
Following this logic, to bomb BASF in Ludwigshafen would be to mock the people who bombed BASF in Br...
RED ARMY FACTION
They see in the political apathy of the proletariat only the apathy, not the protest against a syste...
RED ARMY FACTION
We’re not feeling edgy; the system is feeling nervous.
RED ARMY FACTION
Angry people want you to see how powerful they are... loving people want you to see how powerful You...
CHIEF RED EAGLE
Faith is to believe in what you do not yet see, the reward for faith is to see what you believe.
DETROIT RED WINGS (NHL)
...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie.
MARK LAWRENCE, RED SISTER
For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha...
THE WEEKND
I'm the most boring person to talk to.
THE WEEKND
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
THE TALMUD
He who promises runs in debt.
THE TALMUD
For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
THE WEEKND
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...
THE BIBLE
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD
Who is wise? One who learns from all.
THE TALMUD
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
THE TALMUD
Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD
No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
THE TALMUD
If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
THE TALMUD
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
THE TALMUD
This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
THE TALMUD
Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc...
THE KORAN
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
THE TALMUD
This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj...
THE MAHABHARTA
The sun will set without thy assistance.
THE TALMUD
A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed...
THE TALMUD
Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD
Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
THE TALMUD
The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
THE TALMUD
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
THE TALMUD
To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
THE TALMUD
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while goo...
THE TALMUD
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousnes...
THE TALMUD
Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
THE TALMUD
Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
THE TALMUD
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
THE BIBLE
Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
THE BIBLE
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
THE BIBLE
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ru...
THE BIBLE
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise ma...
THE BIBLE
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
THE BIBLE
Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.
THE BIBLE
And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom...
THE BIBLE
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, a...
THE BIBLE
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are ...
THE BIBLE
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
THE BIBLE
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
THE BIBLE
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
THE BIBLE
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of...
THE BIBLE
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall pre...
THE BIBLE
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their...
THE BIBLE
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
THE BIBLE
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou cri...
THE BIBLE
Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
THE BIBLE
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
THE BIBLE
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
THE BIBLE
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged...
THE BIBLE