Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hippocrates

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

Hillary Clinton

I have a difference with Senator [Bernie] Sanders, who promises free college, which, if you look at the fine print, depends really on governors coming up with a lot of the money, which I don't think is a particularly wise bet. And I have a plan to help people pay down their student debt, because I want to unleash the entrepreneurial energy that young people have.

Herbert Read

Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

Evan Esar

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

Evan Esar

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

Esther Hicks

Be deeply satisfied and ready for more.

Ernest Hemingway

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

Ernest Hemingway

Time is the least thing we have.

Erwin Schrodinger

This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins [wise men or priests in the Vedic tradition] express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as “I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world.

Jiang Zemin

It is not wise [for Chinese] to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.

Groucho Marx

Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it.

Graham Greene

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

Gifford Pinchot

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men

Harriet Lerner

Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act, or, alternatively, to resist the impulse to act. It can help us to make wise, self-protective choices in and out of relationships where we might otherwise sail mindlessly along, ignoring signs of trouble.

Harriet Martineau

[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.

Harper Lee

It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.

Harper Lee

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

Hallie Ephron

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

Halldor Laxness

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.

Gregory Corso

I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

Gregory Maguire

No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

Homer

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Homer

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

Iggy Pop

I don't think I'm lucky; I think I have a tough constitution. That's a lot of it. And I've been wise enough to listen to other people. I was unconsciously cultivating as many straight friends as I could.

Ian Somerhalder

We love things that are dangerous yet sexy. We love things that are powerful and wise.

Hugh Grant

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

Huey Newton

The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.

Howard Gossage

The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.

Hosea Ballou

Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

Hosea Ballou

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

Horace

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.