Quotes about wise
wise home water
If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you. Sheherazade Goldsmith
wise men years
You know, it’s amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek) Sherrilyn Kenyon
wise people house
You are incredibly wise. (Kat) Only when it comes to other people. It’s easy to see how to fix their lives. It’s much harder to see the cracks in your own house. (Acheron)
wise peace men
He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?" Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it. "A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.
wise kings fun
You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra’s stomach...) Be wise, little guy, stay in there where Lord King Neurotic can’t kill all your fun. (Chris)
wise wisdom men
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. Nicolas Chamfort
wise mean rude
What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude. Nora Roberts
wise men color
You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.
wise normal stomach
If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.
wise art winter
That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee in terror. Don't test me." "Can you hear that? It's my knees knocking." "They're wise to fear me.
wise hands skills
You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.
wise character men
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. Nikolai Gogol
wise prescriptions
All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated. Nikola Tesla
wise rap hip-hop
My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology. Nas
wise smart school
I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
wise fool dangerous
Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
wise stupid political
The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
wise nerd fool
The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither
wise government temptation
Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account. N. T. Wright
wise mother jesus
All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the future hope of the whole cosmos, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, gives as coherent a picture as we need or could have of the future that is promised to the whole world, a future in which, under the sovereign and wise rule of the creator God, decay and death will be done away with and a new creation born, to which the present one will stand as mother to child.
wise real ocean
It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly. Miranda July
wise silly book
After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time-about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.
wise why-not wise-words
When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it. Mignon McLaughlin
wise drinking blow
Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else, be wise. John Wilmot
wise kings promise
God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
wise son men
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures. John Woolman
wise intelligent effort
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved. John Ruskin
wise men wisest-man
The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
wise simple able
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies. Mortimer Adler
wise fool misery
Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk. Philip Sidney
wise minerva virtuous
O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
wise men judging
To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
wise giving advice
Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?