Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de la Bruyere

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

Jean de la Bruyere

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

Murray Rothbard

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

Moliere

We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

Moliere

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Moliere

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

Moliere

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Mike Dooley

In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.

Keira Knightley

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

Karl A. Menninger

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Karen Walker

Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men could climb up and spin the dreidel and see if there's six more weeks of winter!

Julian Clary

It's a wise thing to hold back.

Ken Kesey

This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?

Katrina Kaif

Health-wise there is nothing to worry about. Though I had gone through a surgery sometime ago, it was nothing serious.

Krista Tippett

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Kerry Greenwood

And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils.

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

Oliver Goldsmith

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Oliver Goldsmith

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.