Quotes about wise
wise home heaven
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home. William Wordsworth
wise ignorant
I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant William Saroyan
wise art writing
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.
wise stupid humble
I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.
wise pain grief
Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had! William Morris
wise art reading
As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James
wise neglect deny
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
wise men banking
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard Will Durant
wise gay bisexual
Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know … because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years … but younger black women are prostitutes. Sarah Silverman
wise needs
Even the wise need wisdom. Sara Evans
wise peace men
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. Samuel Smiles
wise exercise men
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. William Ellery Channing
wise book men
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
wise women trying
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to. William Faulkner
wise men fool
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue. Saint Francis de Sales
wise love-is justice
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself. Saint Augustine
wise walking
Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.
wise men giving
Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner. Vance Havner
wise men thinking
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style. Roger Ascham
wise long unhappy
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
wise horse children
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
wise writing men
He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.
wise kings moving
Everybody f-king does it. I suppose I can't say 'everybody' because I don't know for sure, but come on...It's just the tiniest sprinkle of Botox twice a year. I think most women do 10 units, but that freezes the face and you can't move it. This is just one unit, and it's just sprinkled here and there to take the edge off...Perhaps it's not wise to put that in a magazine? But I ain't hiding anything. Robin Wright
wise running rain
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again. Robinson Jeffers
wise memorable learning
There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for. Robin Williams
wise average wind
Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common, Robin Givhan
wisest
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say. Robert W. Service
wise sensitive-person people
Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress? Robert Nozick
wise people guy
Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys? Robert Cormier
wise children thinking
Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do. Robert Crais
wise jobs men
There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker. Richard Hooker
wise dog moon
When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on. Richard Whately
wise ignorance men
One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.