Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Scott Fitzgerald

he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

Evan Esar

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

Evan Esar

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

Esther Hicks

Be deeply satisfied and ready for more.

Ernest Hemingway

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

Ernest Hemingway

Time is the least thing we have.

Erwin Schrodinger

This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins [wise men or priests in the Vedic tradition] express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as “I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world.

Erwin McManus

A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.

Erykah Badu

The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.

Ernest Holmes

Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance.

Erin Hunter

Whitestorm was experienced, wise and brave. When Firestar had been made deputy, he had shown not a scrap of resentment that a lesser cat might have felt. He had supported him from the beginning, and he was the cat Firestar naturally turned to when he needed advice.

Flann O'Brien

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

Felix Frankfurter

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Federico Fellini

Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.

Fannie Hurst

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Famke Janssen

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

F. H. Bradley

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

Ezra Taft Benson

Our wise founders seemed to understand, better than most of us, our own scripture, which states that ‘it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority … they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.’

Ezra Taft Benson

There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any specific proposal with confidence... The true statesman values principle above popularity, and works to create popularity for those political principles which are wise and just.

Euripides

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

Euripides

Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

Euripides

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

Euripides

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

Euripides

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

Euripides

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

Euripides

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Euripides

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

Euripides

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

Euripides

The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

Euripides

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

Euripides

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

Euripides

It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

Euripides

In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.