Quotes about wise
wise country jobs
Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote. L. Neil Smith
wise jobs smart
People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. P. J. O'Rourke
wise morning jobs
Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living.
wise pairs worn
Randalf the Wise indeed!I've worn wiser pairs of underpants! Paul Stewart
wise issues people
'We the People' established the Constitution. Did we really do so to somehow keep ourselves out of the decision making. Are we only wise when it comes to electing people capable of governing our affairs, but wholly without the intellect to decide issues for ourselves? Paul Jacob
wise philosophy men
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched. Oscar Wilde
wise destiny superstitions
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
wise understanding looks
To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
wise terror symbols
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
wise men world
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
wise bird understanding
The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
wise sweet art
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.
wise believe men
Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the secret cause of life evolution has nothing to do. A man, therefore, may be a materialistic evolutionist or a theistic evolutionist; that is, he may believe that the cause is some single unintelligent impersonal force, or he may believe that the cause is a wise and beneficent God. Lyman Abbott
wise doe spirituality
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. Lydia M. Child
wise law sorrow
Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come. Lucretia Mott
wise men thinking
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there. Lucretius
wise wisdom fighting
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. Louis L'Amour
wise men sickness
If you take a little time and watch forensics, and see what men, sick-minded men do ... I don't know whether it's wise for women to feed the sickness that's in the man. Louis Farrakhan
wise men hands
A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.
wise writing thinking
Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too healthy, in that. Better to think of writing, of what one does as an activity, rather than an identity - to write, I write; we write; to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun; to keep working at the thing, at all hours, in all places, so that your life does not become a pose, a pornography of wishing. Lorrie Moore
wise school reality
There's really educated women out there who are feminists and they have read up on their stuff. They can talk to me right now, and school me on some things I've never known, and that's amazing, you are a scholar, you are wise, you are educated. But the unfortunate thing is also the reality, and the fact is, millions of people might not even know who these educated feminists are - hundreds will, thousands maybe.
wise moving heart
Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive! Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist. Michael Jackson
wise men said
As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'
wise moving heart
Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.
wise use energy
Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained. Michael Dolan
wise science men
In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right. Michael Crichton
wise children father
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. Mark Twain
wise government sticks
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.
wise children lying
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
wise wisdom distance
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
wise lying evil
The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.
wise up-early bed
Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.
wise witty kindness
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.