Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.

Oscar Wilde

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

Oscar Wilde

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Oscar Wilde

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Paul Ricoeur

There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the less he spoke Why can't we be like that wise old owl in the tree? Speech must die to serve that which is spoken.

Paul Fussell

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Paul Fussell

All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Patrick Ness

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

Patrick Rothfuss

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

Patrick Rothfuss

You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. "You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

Patrick Rothfuss

You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.

Patrick Rothfuss

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

Patrick Rothfuss

I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.

Patrick Rothfuss

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

Lily Collins

Celia [Brady] is a young woman who, you know, she's still got that fresh young vibe about her but at the same time she's quite wise beyond her years and very mature and she has that womanly, sexy quality, but at the same time she's very youthful in her clothes. She has that interesting mix between the two. I really love that balance about fashion.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Leon Kass

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Learned Hand

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.

Laurence J. Peter

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

Laurence J. Peter

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

L. Frank Baum

Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.

L. Neil Smith

Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.

P. J. O'Rourke

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

P. J. O'Rourke

Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living.

Paul Stewart

Randalf the Wise indeed!I've worn wiser pairs of underpants!

Paul Jacob

'We the People' established the Constitution. Did we really do so to somehow keep ourselves out of the decision making. Are we only wise when it comes to electing people capable of governing our affairs, but wholly without the intellect to decide issues for ourselves?

Ken Burns

We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.

Kostya Tszyu

When somebody can be intimidated, I use this. Because I'm very wise person. I know how to intimidate my opponents. I know how to play tricky stuff for them.

Oscar Levant

An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

Omar Sharif

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

Oprah Winfrey

You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

When people show you who they are ... believe them!

Oliver Goldsmith

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.