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- Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — George Bernard Shaw
- When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. — Winston Churchill
- Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still. — William Cartwright
- There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew. — William Cartwright
- Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be! — William Cartwright