Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo DiCaprio

We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.

Leonardo da Vinci

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

Leonardo da Vinci

The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.

Oscar Wilde

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

Oscar Wilde

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Oscar Wilde

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Paul Ricoeur

There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the less he spoke Why can't we be like that wise old owl in the tree? Speech must die to serve that which is spoken.

Paul Fussell

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Paul Fussell

All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Patrick Ness

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

Patrick Rothfuss

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

Patrick Rothfuss

You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. "You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

Patrick Rothfuss

You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.

Patrick Rothfuss

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

Patrick Rothfuss

I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.

Patrick Rothfuss

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

Lily Collins

Celia [Brady] is a young woman who, you know, she's still got that fresh young vibe about her but at the same time she's quite wise beyond her years and very mature and she has that womanly, sexy quality, but at the same time she's very youthful in her clothes. She has that interesting mix between the two. I really love that balance about fashion.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Leon Kass

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Learned Hand

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.

Laurence J. Peter

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

Laurence J. Peter

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

Neal A. Maxwell

I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, "My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds." That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.

Neal A. Maxwell

Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.

Neal A. Maxwell

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

Neal A. Maxwell

Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.

Muhammad Iqbal

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Muhammad Ali

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Mark Batterson

Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.

Marguerite Yourcenar

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

Maria Edgeworth

My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.