Better part of wisdom
Steve Delmont
What is the opening phrase of this qote:
ł (unknown) is the better part of wisdom.˛
Also, what is the correct diction for this paraphrased (hacked) quote
by Whitman, and where does it originate?
łOf course I contradict myself. I am enormous.˛
Thanks in advance.
fletcher
In article <delmont-1205...@dial042.skypoint.net>,
del...@skypoint.com (Steve Delmont) wrote:
> What is the opening phrase of this qote:
> ³ (unknown) is the better part of wisdom.²
Discretion is the better part of valour?
Sorry, can't think of the author.
-Victoria
Bruce Miller
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes).
Song of Myself 51
Eben Watt
fletcher (flet...@lava.net) wrote:
> In article <delmont-1205...@dial042.skypoint.net>,
> del...@skypoint.com (Steve Delmont) wrote:
> > What is the opening phrase of this qote:
> > ł (unknown) is the better part of wisdom.˛
> Discretion is the better part of valour?
> Sorry, can't think of the author.
That is Shakespeare, Henry IV I think.
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Ellen Smith
Discretion is the better part of valor is from Shakespeare's King
Henry IV..I *think*. Not sure about the better part of wisdom.
Hence, a lot of my problems. :)
flet...@lava.net (fletcher) wrote:
>In article <delmont-1205...@dial042.skypoint.net>,
>del...@skypoint.com (Steve Delmont) wrote:
>> What is the opening phrase of this qote:
>> ł (unknown) is the better part of wisdom.˛
>Discretion is the better part of valour?
>Sorry, can't think of the author.
>-Victoria
Kate Richardson
i've heard "wisdom is the better part of valor" but never what might be "the
better part of wisdom."
Don R. Calkins
I have heard 'Silence is the better part of wisdom.', but suspect it's from
either anonymous or unanimous.
Don C
He who believes himself spiritual proves he is not - The Cloud of Unknowing
Nancy J. Gill
c...@ionet.net (Ellen Smith) wrote:
>Discretion is the better part of valor is from Shakespeare's King
>Henry IV..I *think*. Not sure about the better part of wisdom.
>Hence, a lot of my problems. :)
>flet...@lava.net (fletcher) wrote:
>>In article <delmont-1205...@dial042.skypoint.net>,
>>del...@skypoint.com (Steve Delmont) wrote:
>>> What is the opening phrase of this qote:
>>> ł (unknown) is the better part of wisdom.˛
>>Discretion is the better part of valour?
It seems the part of wisdom.
William Cowper 1731-1800
The Task [1785], bk. IV, The Winter Evening, l. 336
The better part of valor is discretion.
William Shakespeare 1564-1616
King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],
Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 120
Discretion is the better part of virtue,
Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
Ogden Nash 1902-1971
The Old Dog Barks Backwards [1972]. Political Reflection
Nancy J. Gill (njg...@ix.netcom.com)
http://www.netcom.com/~njgill/
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Fifty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs that many,
It seems to leave me hardly any,
And since to look at things in bloom
Twenty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
Shamelessly purloined from
A[lfred] E[dward] Housman 1859-1936
A Shropshire Lad [1896], no. 2, st. 2, 3
Robert Craig
Try these:
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"
Psalm 111 v10
or
"And what is bettre than wisedoom? Womman. And what is bettre than
a good womman? Nothyng."
Chaucer Canterbury Tales
Two rather different views!
Robert Craig
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