Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick Douglass

Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.

Frederick Douglass

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

Frederick Buechner

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

Frederick Buechner

In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.

Frank Warren

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

George Eliot

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

Fernando Pessoa

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

Fernando Pessoa

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

Felix Adler

It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and their goodness and their wisdom while they live, making it natural for us to breathe the air they breathe and giving us confidence in our own untested powers. And the same influence in more ethereal fashion they continue to exert after they are gone.

Felix Frankfurter

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Federico Fellini

Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.

Fannie Hurst

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Famke Janssen

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

F. H. Bradley

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

Ezra Taft Benson

Our wise founders seemed to understand, better than most of us, our own scripture, which states that ‘it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority … they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.’

Ezra Taft Benson

There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any specific proposal with confidence... The true statesman values principle above popularity, and works to create popularity for those political principles which are wise and just.

Euripides

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

Euripides

Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

Euripides

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

Euripides

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

Euripides

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

Euripides

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

Euripides

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Euripides

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

Euripides

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

Euripides

The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

Euripides

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

Euripides

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

Euripides

It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

Euripides

In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.

Euripides

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

Euripides

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

Euripides

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.