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wise giving actors
Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power. William Mapother
wise neglect deny
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education. William James
wise men banking
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard Will Durant
wise needs
Even the wise need wisdom. Sara Evans
wise exercise men
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. William Ellery Channing
wise book men
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.
wise women trying
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to. William Faulkner
wise strive wanted
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. Raymond E. Feist
wise witty art
[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 Francis Burton
witty opposites long
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny. Umberto Eco
witty sex good-things
The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it. Truman Capote
witty humorous heart
Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds. Woody Allen
witty humorous ideas
I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.
witty self-esteem humorous
Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.
witty stories love-story
Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story. Robyn Carr
witty night years
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them. Virginia Woolf
witty
They stayed away in droves. Samuel Goldwyn
witty chins
Keep a stiff upper chin.
lying moving hunting
As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity. Richard Page
lying teaching views
The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off chance that it is in another direction — a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory — who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unfashionable point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself. Richard P. Feynman
lying intellectual quests
Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties. Richard Hofstadter
lying skills ideas
To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.
lying hate people
There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition. Rebecca West
lying book reading
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
lying book reflection
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.
lying passion insane
The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
lying practice dames
Dames lie about anything - just for practice. Raymond Chandler