Quotes about wise
wise clever men
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. Fannie Hurst
wise fighting careers
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. Famke Janssen
wise suffering needs
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. F. H. Bradley
wise exercise men
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
wise government political
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.
wise men giving
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement. Euripides
wise dream thinking
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.
wise men saws
If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.
wise home men
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
wise wisdom heart
Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.
wise men darkness
It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
wise men ideas
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
wise pain support
The wise with hope support the pains of life.
wise men wife
A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.
wise pain house
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.
wise men tasks
When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.
wise ignorant seems
To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.
wise heart men
It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.
wise men unjust
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.
wise men ideas
He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.
wise joy sorrow
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
wise fate men
Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.
wise venture hopeless
None wise dares hopeless venture.
wise courage men
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.
wise wisdom men
Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.
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Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise
wise charm fellows
A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.
wise men awe
The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him. Francis Chan
wise world shifting
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false. Francesco Guicciardini
wise grieving knowing
Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving? Francis Atterbury
wise blessing community
A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.
wise men order
It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.
wise simple men
Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Francis Bacon