Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

George Eliot

History repeats itself.

George Eliot

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Strike while the iron is hot.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Francoise Sagan

curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

George W. Bush

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

George W. Bush

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

George Orwell

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Jean Cocteau

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Frederick Douglass

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

Ezra Stiles

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in the foolishness of pride, that our manifold blessings are due not to God's goodness, but to our own wisdom and virtue. Too many of us have been so drunk with self-sufficiency as no longer to feel the need of prayer.

Euripides

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

Francis of Assisi

What you are looking for is what is looking.

Francis Hutcheson

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

Francis Beaumont

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

Francis Bacon

The wisdom of the ancients.

Francis Bacon

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Groucho Marx

Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I want you to be free. Strike off your chains! Strike up the band! Strike three you're out! Remember, there's nothing like Liberty, except Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Be free, now and forever. One and individual. One for all and all for me, and tea for two and six for a quarter....

Groucho Marx

In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.

Groucho Marx

Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose.

Girolamo Savonarola

Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

Harper Lee

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

Horace

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

Horace

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.