Quotes about wise
wise dream country
When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that day's shelter or the next day's meal. It's a shame, even a tragedy, how many people do not get to think about the future. Technology coupled with wise leadership not only solves these problems but enables dreams of tomorow. Neil deGrasse Tyson
wise men people
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange Neil Gaiman
wise children book
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.
wise men
Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.
wise rip wind
I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the wicked. Or just anybody that I don't like.
wise men fool
The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.
wise angel hard-work
He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.
wise dream revenge
He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. And...?' 'I shall seek the Buddha,' said the fox, with a toss of her head. 'But first I shall seek revenge.
wise men tree
Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live, they can not tell you ; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live for, if he knows , he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live , do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so. John Norman
wise men mountain
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen John Muir
wise fate men
Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise. John Webster
wise witty lust
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
wise men religion
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by. John Tillotson
wise forever fool
He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever.
wise men fool
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
wise ideas experts
Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about. John Templeton
wise men water
The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water John Stuart Blackie
wise sweet art
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize.
wise jobs children
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing. John Steinbeck
wise strong son
Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.
wise kings winning
This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.
wise fall sleep
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body squirms a moment as though she fitted herself into a cocoon. She sighs once and at the end of it her eyes close and her lips, untroubled, fall into that wise and remote smile of the Ancient Greek gods. She smiles all night in her sleep, her breath purrs in her throat, not a snore, a kitten's purr... She loves to sleep and sleep welcomes her.
wise average risk
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk. John Slattery
wise mind crowds
Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't. John Seabrook
wise believe president
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits. John Podesta
wise people wise-people
Wise people know that all their money belongs to God. John Piper
wise desire gowns
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise. Martin Luther
wise religious humor
A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.
wise strong people
It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
wise book simple
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
wise power men
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
wise women gowns
There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.
wise wisdom devil
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.