Quotes about wise
wise wisdom men
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket. Miguel de Cervantes
wise saws wealth
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
wise dream country
When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that day's shelter or the next day's meal. It's a shame, even a tragedy, how many people do not get to think about the future. Technology coupled with wise leadership not only solves these problems but enables dreams of tomorow. Neil deGrasse Tyson
wise men people
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange Neil Gaiman
wise children book
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.
wise men
Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.
wise rip wind
I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the wicked. Or just anybody that I don't like.
wise men fool
The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.
wise angel hard-work
He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.
wise dream revenge
He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. And...?' 'I shall seek the Buddha,' said the fox, with a toss of her head. 'But first I shall seek revenge.
wise men tree
Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live, they can not tell you ; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live for, if he knows , he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live , do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so. John Norman
wise men mountain
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen John Muir
wise fate men
Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise. John Webster
wise witty lust
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
wise men religion
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by. John Tillotson
wise forever fool
He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever.
wise men fool
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
wise ideas experts
Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about. John Templeton
wise men water
The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water John Stuart Blackie
wise sweet art
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize.
wise jobs children
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing. John Steinbeck
wise strong son
Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.
wise kings winning
This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.
wise fall sleep
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body squirms a moment as though she fitted herself into a cocoon. She sighs once and at the end of it her eyes close and her lips, untroubled, fall into that wise and remote smile of the Ancient Greek gods. She smiles all night in her sleep, her breath purrs in her throat, not a snore, a kitten's purr... She loves to sleep and sleep welcomes her.
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.