Quotes about wise
wise stuff life-is
Time is the stuff of which life is made. Katharine Hepburn
wise men advice
The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. Karen Kingsbury
wise ignorance men
A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee. Joseph Conrad
wise men sailing
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
wise dad children
My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first. Leona Lewis
wise men chaos
Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind. Leonard Cohen
wise way eras
I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being. Laz Alonso
wise eye two
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes. Langston Hughes
wise sports player
The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win. John Kessel
wise wisdom pride
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. John Keats
wise wall responsibility
Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them. John Kenneth Galbraith
wise economics scope
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.
wise rain law
We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of nature to provide for the various exigencies of the sublunary creation, and to make the several parts dependent upon each other, so as to form one well-regulated system or whole. John Dalton
wise loyalty fall
Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.
wise long television
Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something. Gary Cole
wise age employment
...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments. Lyndon B. Johnson
wise spring heart
Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
wise inspiration patriotic
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
wise decision choices
Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of. Ludacris
wise moments ends
Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend. Lucian
wise strong disappointment
If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way. Loretta Young
wise grief sorrow
Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge. Lord Byron
wise men bars
Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.
wise art moving
Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.
wise laughter men
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
wise growing-up blessed
It was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink, to be me and not what I was expected to be. It was there that I learned it is blessed to receive, as well as that every human being, no matter how base, is worthy of my respect and even my envy because he knows something that I may never be old or wise or kind or tender enough to know. M. F. K. Fisher
wise wisdom maturity
A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not. Lord Chesterfield
wise men advice
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
wise may matter
Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never being matter of indifference; and, when well concerted, must be decisive.
wise men mind
A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.... Bear this truth always in your mind, that you may be admired for your wit, if you have any; but that nothing but good sense and good qualities can make you be loved.
wise wisdom passion
Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.
wise philosophy care
Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.
wise men thinking
Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective.