Quotes about wise
wise children thinking
Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do. Robert Crais
wise jobs men
There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker. Richard Hooker
wise lying wife
Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support. Robert Louis Stevenson
wise song jesus
Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men. Robert Louis Stevenson
wise horror modern
The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag. Robert Englund
wise wisdom
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? Voltaire
wise adversity men
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. Voltaire
wise daughter mother
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. Voltaire
wise thinking heaven
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool. Voltaire
wise pure do-the-best
We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know. Voltaire
wise things-happen
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew. Voltaire
wise fierce severe
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad. Voltaire
wise men knowing
The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited. William Feather
wise age fables
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. William Feather
wise witty philosophy
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be. William Feather
wise men relative-value
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. William Ralph Inge
wise wisdom common-sense
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. William Ralph Inge
wise community age
Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted. William C. Bryant
wise angel godly
The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. William Butler Yeats
wise wisdom suffering
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. William Butler Yeats
wise wisdom writing
Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts. William Butler Yeats
wise heart eye
The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?" William Butler Yeats
wise running stars
Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. 'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.' Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon. William Butler Yeats
wise daughter stars
A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top. William Butler Yeats
wise queens women
Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.... William Butler Yeats
wise running stars
Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.. William Butler Yeats
wise book thinking
When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens. William Butler Yeats
wise hands storm
Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery. William Butler Yeats
wise patience needs
Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience. William Butler Yeats
wise daughter mother
For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise. Will Allison
wise men fool
The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out. Wilkie Collins
wise men humanity
You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder. Wilhelm Reich
wise inspiration humility
How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No great man has ever wise-cracked his way to greatness. Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself. No one can multiply himself by himself. He must first divide himself and give himself to the service of all, thus placing himself within all others through acts of thoughtfulness and service. Walter Russell