Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harlan Ellison

Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things.

Han Fei

By looking at a person's features, clothing, and speech, even Confucius would not be able to say what sort of a person he is. But by testing him in a position and seeing what he he does, even someone with so-so judgment would be able to know if he is wise or not.

Grantland Rice

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Gordon Lightfoot

See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

John Dryden

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

John Dryden

Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice.

John Dryden

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

John Marshall

The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

John Maynard Keynes

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

John Maynard Keynes

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

John Maynard Keynes

The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

John Maynard Keynes

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

John Maynard Keynes

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

John Malkovich

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

John Locke

Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation.

John Legend

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

John Lancaster Spalding

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

John Lancaster Spalding

If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.

John le Carre

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

John le Carre

People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

Judith Krantz

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

Josh Hutcherson

I'm so excited. I love Peeta so much. I think that over the course of the next couple of books, he has so many interesting places to go to, character-wise. I'm ready to dive full-force into it. When I saw the movie actually, it got me energized. 'Let's go get some cameras! Let's go shoot the second one right now!'

Joseph Hall

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Joseph Hall

Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.

Katharine Hepburn

Time is the stuff of which life is made.

Karen Kingsbury

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

Joseph Conrad

A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.