What are the wisest words you've heard?

Question

"Life is but a draft, a long rehearsal for a show that will never play."

Answer 1

"Wherever you go in life, that's where you are..."

Answer 2

"Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and s*x and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."

– C. S. Lewis (1898-1963). Weight of Glory

Answer 3

"ask a man"

Answer 4

Eat your veggies!!

Answer 5

"You have to do what you know in your heart is right." - My Dad

"In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King

Answer 6

never eat yellow snow!

just kidding

"There are no ugly people, just ugly attitudes."

Answer 7

chew before you swallow

Answer 8

"Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I ****, what I take into my body – as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?"  - Bill Hicks -

Answer 9

Abraham Lincoln was once asked this question. His response was, "And this, too, shall pass."

Shakespeare said," To thine own self be true."

Today, it seems to be, "Whatever!".

Answer 10

If the people will lead, the leaders will follow. -bumper sticker

"If passion drives, let reason hold the reins." -Ben Franklin

"The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it"- Marcus Aurelius

Answer 11

There are so many but one that always comes to mind for me is:  Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.