Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

Charles Manson

I'm not very wise to many things.

Charles Grodin

I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

Bob Saget

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

Bob Saget

If you're a host of a video show and you're on the cleanest show on television for eight years, people want to say, 'Well, that's what that person does.' That was the dilemma for me, career-wise.

Beth Moore

Let's all wise up. Some of us aren't fighting the fire; we're playing with fire. Flirting with the devil. Stop it! Stop it now before all hell literally breaks loose.

Bernard of Clairvaux

If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.

Benjamin Hoff

In the story of Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it's there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Wise are Who They Are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do.

Benjamin Hoff

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

Bob Marley

The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be.

Bill Withers

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.

Bill Vaughan

The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!

William Shakespeare

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

William Shakespeare

The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.

William Shakespeare

When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.

William Shakespeare

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

William Shakespeare

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

William Shakespeare

See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

Byron Katie

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

Bryan White

There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

Catherine Fisher

Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And the craftsmen?' 'Forging machines to challenge the darkness.' 'And the Wise, who made the world?' The swan lowered its black neck sadly. 'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers.

Cary Grant

Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

Camille Paglia

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Bryan Procter

I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.

Catherynne M. Valente

Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door of death - but has not yet fallen. It is a world of contradictions: a time of harvest and plenty but also of cold and hardship. Here we dwell in the midst of life, but we know most keenly that all things must pass away and shrivel. Autumn turns the world from one thing into another. The year is seasoned and wise but not yet decrepit or senile.

Carl Hiaasen

Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

Carl Jung

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Carl Jung

The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline.

Carl Jung

Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable

Carl Jung

Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.