Who said “Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between…”?

“Who is wise? One who learns from all.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.”

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

“A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make any sense.”

“I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.”

“My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.”

“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”

“The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.”

“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.”

“We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.”