 | Wess Roberts - Business & Economics - 2002 - 180 pages
...Kempis is the reputed author of the religious classic De Imitatione Christi IImitation of ChristI. Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. —Philip Dormer Stankope, 1694-1773, English fourth earl of Chesterfield, memher of Parliameat, ambassador... | |
 | Ruurd B. Halbertsma - Art - 2003 - 204 pages
...determined to realize his ideas, could live with this state of affairs. 4 COLLECTIONS AND CONFLICTS Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) A NATIONAL MUSEUM AND THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY:... | |
 | Bob Fenster - Humor - 2004 - 340 pages
...where my eyes were yesterday." 7. Copy the clever moves. • English politician Lord Chesterfield: "Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so," • Scientist Linus Pauling: "The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." • Writer... | |
 | Sango Mbella - Business & Economics - 2005 - 304 pages
...to waste. In witty or wise, there is a time and place for each - one being the thief of the other. Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. -Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -Sir Francis... | |
 | C. Wayne Owens - 2006 - 137 pages
...is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." -Arthur Calwell (#936) November 17, 2000 "Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so . " -Lord Chesterfield (#937) November 18, 2000 "A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience... | |
 | Larry Chang - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2006 - 826 pages
...ourselves or others, without despondency or voluntary vexation. ~ Jean-Pierre de Caussade, 1675-1751 ~ Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them . . . Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired. ~... | |
 | Erin Gruwell - Education - 2007 - 808 pages
...counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. — PROVERBS 17:28 Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. — LORD CHESTERFIELD The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. — BALTASAR GRACIAN It... | |
 | Joyce Guccione - Self-Help - 2007 - 310 pages
...from yesterday's mistakes. . . Yesterday's experiences are the Foundation on which you build today." 'BE WISER THAN OTHER PEOPLE IF YOU CAN, BUT DO NOT TELL THEM SO. " Lord Chesterfield "<£e of good cheer. <Do not thinf^of to-day's failures, but of the success that... | |
 | 124 pages
...(1716-1771) From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise. - Matthew Prior (1664-1721) Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. - Chesterfield (1694-1773) 121. Woman Here lies a poor woman who was always tired. She lived in a house... | |
 | Authorship - 1905 - 322 pages
...in the world is to be different from other people and conceal the fact," and somebody else said, " Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so." To be thought clever by the multitude is not a pleasing sensation to a normal individual, who doesn't... | |
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For instance; dress is a very foolish thing; and yet it is a very foolish thing for a man not to be well dressed, according to his rank and way of life; and it is so far from being a disparagement to any man's understanding, that it is rather a proof... 
