Speak fitly or be silent wisely. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

As the ancients wisely say
Have a care o' the main chance,
And look before you ere you leap;
For as you sow you are like to reap. [ Butler ]

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him never make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe. [ Schiller ]

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. [ Quarles ]

Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort. [ William Shakespeare ]

Walk
Boldly and wisely in that light thou hast.
There is a Hand above will help thee on. [ Bailey ]

Who reasons wisely, is not therefore wise,
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. [ Pope ]

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,
If one be better with them or without -
Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,
Knows the high art of what and how to read. [ J. G. Saxe ]

Never give up! or the burden may sink you,
Providence wisely has mingled the cup;
And in all trials and troubles bethink you,
The watchword of life should be, Never give up! [ M. F. Tupper ]

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Liberality is not giving largely, but giving wisely. [ Proverb ]

If you command wisely, you will be obeyed cheerfully. [ Proverb ]

God who made the world so wisely, as wisely governs it. [ Proverb ]

Fools can find fault indeed, but they cannot act more wisely. [ Langbein ]

For to what can happiness be wisely sacrificed but to greater happiness? [ John Hawkesworth ]

He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer the worst that man can breathe. [ William Shakespeare ]

How wisely fate ordained for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass.
Wherein we truly see and know ourselves. [ Davenant ]

God governs the world, and we have only to do our duty wisely, and leave the issue to Him. [ John Jay ]

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. [ Southey ]

A nation does wisely, if not well, in starving her men of genius. Fatten them, and they are done for. [ Charles Buxton ]

If you resolve to do right, you will soon do wisely; but resolve only to do wisely, and you will never do right. [ John Ruskin ]

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. [ Socrates ]

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them. [ Izaak Walton ]

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly. [ Bovee ]

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct: for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily. [ Confucius ]

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again; wisely improve the present, it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Give thy friend counsel wisely and charitably, but leave him to his liberty whether he will follow thee or no; and be not angry if thy counsel be rejected, for advice is no empire, and he is not my friend that will be my judge whether I will or no. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man - a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object - the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress. [ Carlyle ]

Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend; and when thy impartial judgment concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his; he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so. [ F. Quarles ]

There is scare any lot so low, but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen, Providence having so ordered things, that in every man's cup how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops, some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them, that is, to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resigned. [ Sterne ]