Quotes about wise
wise horse men
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.
wise character kids
There's a lot of kids' shows that are really popular ratings-wise, but they don't sell a lot of stuff. A character on a backpack just doesn't have the same appeal as watching it on TV. Tom Kenny
wise two america
The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people we admit) and immigrant policy (how we treat people who are already here). What our nation needs is a pro-immigrant policy of low immigration. A pro-immigrant policy of low immigration can reconcile America's traditional welcome for newcomers with the troubling consequences of today's mass immigration. It would enable us to be faithful and wise stewards of America's interests while also showing immigrants the respect they deserve as future Americans. Tom Tancredo
wise wine men
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
wise cousin men
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods. Victor Cousin
wise men knows
The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop Victor Hugo
wise writing passion
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop. Victor Hugo
wise wisdom men
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. Victor Hugo
wise heart destiny
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. Victor Hugo
wise philosophy destiny
During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege. Victor Hugo
wise reality facts
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise. Victor Hugo
wise book people
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. Victor Hugo
wise ambition defeat
It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions. Vernon Howard
wise spiritual teacher
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone. Vernon Howard
wise book deep-understanding
The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read. Robert Fogel
wise thinking men
The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice. Robert Benchley
wise believe past
Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a way to make people generally more wise and more skilful than they have been in the past, I believe that we should look for it in medicine. It is true that medicine as it is currently practiced contains little of much use. Rene Descartes
wise greatness men
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. Thomas Otway
wise men office
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men. Thomas More
wise medicine wish
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines. Thomas More
wise heart animal
The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our heart. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals. Thomas Paine
wise men ideas
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat. Thomas Paine
wise men matter
Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter. Thomas Paine
wise wisdom science
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Thomas Huxley
wise world sentimental
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. Thomas Huxley
wise men true-or-false
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. Thomas Huxley
wise thinking hands
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. Thomas Huxley
wise wisdom men
A wise man is out of the reach of fortune. Thomas Browne
wise men thinking
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity. Thomas Browne
wise sex men
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life. Thomas Browne
wise hands whales
. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to doe what reason cannot teach us? ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, Whales, Elephants, Dromidaries and Camels; these I confesse, are the Colossus and Majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow Engines there is more curious Mathematicks, and the civilitie of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdome of their Maker. Thomas Browne
wise love-is men
The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed. Thomas Browne
wise procrastination delay
Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. Thomas Browne