Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

Bertrand Russell

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Charles Mackay

The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity.

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!

Bette Midler

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

Benjamin Whichcote

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Benjamin Whichcote

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

Benjamin Whichcote

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

Chauncey Depew

Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before God and the law moved westward from Calvary with its revolutionary influence upon old institutions, to the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus carried it westward across the seas.

Joseph Howe

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.

William Shakespeare

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

William Shakespeare

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare

All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!

William Shakespeare

But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God.

Che Guevara

We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.

Charles Kuralt

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Aimee Bender

and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

Bo Derek

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.

Jane Addams

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

Jane Austen

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

Jane Austen

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Jane Austen

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.