Quotes about wise
wise truth heart
Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape. John Milton
wise men may
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
wise lying men
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. Norman Douglas
wise people finals
How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise? Mitch Albom
wise children men
The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.
wise men eggs
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket. Miguel de Cervantes
wise running anxiety
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
wise kings sleep
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
wise enough wise-words
Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.
wise madmen miscellaneous
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
wise hands tongue
The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
wise wisdom men
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
wise saws wealth
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
wise wisdom littles
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows. Thomas Jefferson
wise years debt-free
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.
wise wisdom men
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
wise country party
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves.
wise
It is not always wise to appear singular. Taylor Caldwell
wise distribution-of-power trials
Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial. Edward Coke
wise horse writing
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident. Edward Dahlberg
wise heart men
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom) Edith Hamilton
wise wisdom soulmate
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. John F. Kennedy
wise character successful
A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.
wise strong book
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.
wise men walking-dead
Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men. Jonathan Maberry
wise fall men
A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.
wise writing kind
I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much all the time that it's like I start fresh over and over and over and over. Writing-wise and life-wise. Jonathan Ames
wise judgment capacity
Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise. Jonas Salk
wise writing thinking
Sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, oh my god, I'm never going to work again, even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along. But for me, I freak out - because I'm a bit of a workaholic - the second I finish a movie going oh my god, what am I going to do, but I can start writing the next day so it doesn't force me to make a bad choice acting-wise. Jonah Hill
wise writing careers
Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.
wise wall cutting
Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as blaming the rising price of fairy dust. But as a wise man once asked, Who gives a rat's patoot what Joe Biden thinks? Jonah Goldberg
wise law america
The wisdom of the masses is not always wise. You could put a lot of things to a vote-you could have put anti-miscegenation laws to a vote, and that would have passed pretty handily. Either all people are created equal-or they're not. You're either buying into the original premise of America-or you're not. Jon Stewart
wise jobs hate
Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit. Kate Beckinsale