Quotes about wise
wise action reckless
Reckless action is worse than wise restraint. Danielle Trussoni
wise book bigs
Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity. Dani Shapiro
wise lying enemy
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
wise jesus responsibility
The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to Jesus with one supreme request. They did not say, 'Lord, teach us to preach'; Lord, teach us to do miracles,' or 'Lord, teach us to be wise'...but they said, 'Lord, teach us to pray.' Billy Graham
wise fool defeated
Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools. Dogen
wise men fool
A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
wise problem concrete
History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems. Ludwig von Mises
wise ideas missing
We’ll continue our discussion later. Right now I intend to escort Miss Peyton to her room.” “That is not a wise idea, in my opinion,” the earl said. “I’m glad I didn’t ask for it, then,” Simon returned pleasantly Lisa Kleypas
wise fighting littles
I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish. William Shakespeare
wise art fall
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.
wise sweet ocean
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. *Here’s what love is: a smoke made out of lovers' sighs. When the smoke clears, love is a fire burning in your lover’s eyes. If you frustrate love, you get an ocean made out of lovers' tears. What else is love? It’s a wise form of madness. It’s a sweet lozenge that you choke on.*
wise revenge mean
Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise. Maurice Maeterlinck
wise men lady-macbeth
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.
wise men giving
When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.
wise silence saying-nothing
I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.
wise grace virtuous
One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.
wise knows
Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.
wise use fairness
If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it.
wise heaven grace
Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.
wise fairness holy
Who is Silvia What is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair, and wise is she.
wise queens kings
Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man; we say the King Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous; We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.
wise loss men
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
wise witty love-is
She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.
wise smart men
The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.
wise believe pride
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. Aeschylus
wise doubt beacons
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
wise teacher witty
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. Alice Walker
wise ocean men
It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.
wise may serpent
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be. Alice Hoffman
wise loyalty real
I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a second date. I was too nasty, a real wise guy, and all the boys could tell what my rotten disposition was. Deep down, I wanted a commitment with a capital C. To get anywhere with me, a boy would have to sign his undying loyalty with his own blood.
wise running baby
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
wise netherlands plymouth
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. Albert Bushnell Hart
wise bullying kids
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed. Albert Ellis