Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Mapother

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

William James

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

Will Durant

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

Sara Evans

Even the wise need wisdom.

William Ellery Channing

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

William Ellery Channing

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

William Faulkner

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

Raymond E. Feist

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

Richard Francis Burton

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Sara Teasdale

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Samuel Johnson

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

Virgil

Each man is led by his own liking.

William Howard Taft

Politics make me sick

Willa Cather

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

Warren Beatty

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Lon Carter

It always comes down to times, heights and distances.

Salman Rushdie

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

Wiz Khalifa

When you livin' this high you can't be afraid of heights.

Anthony Anderson

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

Sylvester Stallone

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

James Caan

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

Euripides

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

Fernando Pessoa

For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

Vince Carter

Because of his height and some of the things he can do. I don't know if many people have seen some things he can do. But if he can make his dunks, he can make his way to the final.