Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimi Hendrix

Never write a letter while you are angry.

Jimi Hendrix

Genealogists live in the past lane.

Erik Erikson

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Eric Taylor

Alright, listen up. I'm supposed to give you some fatherly and wise advice at this time in your life. Listen up, if you're wondering if a boy's thinking about you, he's not. He's thinking about sex, or he's hungry: those are the only two options.

Emma Watson

Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

John McCain

I believe that we're going to find out that America made a lot of mistakes diplomatically, economically, militarily, intel-wise. But, I also think we're going to find out the U.S. has done a lot of good things too.

John Heywood

All's well that ends well.

John Heywood

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

John Heywood

Good to be merie and wise.

Aubrey McClendon

With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.

Bertrand Russell

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

Bertrand Russell

Love is wise – Hatred is foolish.

Benjamin Disraeli

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Benjamin Disraeli

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Adlai Stevenson

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Adlai Stevenson

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

Anna Jameson

Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

Edgar Allan Poe

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Edgar Allan Poe

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Elbert Hubbard

The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

Elbert Hubbard

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

Elbert Hubbard

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

Elbert Hubbard

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

Eleanor Roosevelt

The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation. . . . To change these traditions . . . would be harmful to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area. If we look at situations which have arisen in the past in Europe and other world areas, I think we will see the reason why it is wise to hold to our early traditions.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.

Edsger Dijkstra

...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible.

Romesh Gunesekera

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally.

Havelock Ellis

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Hans Christian Andersen

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.