Quotes about wise
wise has-beens merry
I would much rather have been merry than wise. Jane Austen
wise running target
To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target. Janet Yellen
wise taken listening
Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind Janet Frame
wise country sacrifice
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been dedicated by long practice to that wise and beneficent policy. It is the foundation principle of our system of liberty. It makes the largest promise to the freedom and development of the individual. Its preservation is worth all the effort and all the sacrifice that it may cost. Calvin Coolidge
wise secret curiosity
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. Bryant H. McGill
wise literature fruit
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
wise strings-attached giving
Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached. Catherine Ponder
wise faces towns
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. Carson McCullers
wise writing thinking
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy. Carol Burnett
wise country selfish
I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. Carl Schurz
wise paper bankers
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved. Alan Furst
wise men fools-day
As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads." Al Yankovic
wise sweat upset
I am convinced that wise planning is good. But plans, like material possessions, must always be held loosely. Yes - always! Plan wisely, but be ready for God to rearrange things and take you along paths that may feel dangerous to you. Don't sweat it; He knows what He's doing. And He isn't obligated to inform you ... or request permission to upset your neat little agenda! Charles R. Swindoll
wise christian want
Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends
wise boys men
You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is, or what she can do; and nobody knows; not even Sir Roderick Murchison, or Professor Huxley, or Mr. Darwin, or Professor Faraday, or Mr. Grove, or any other of the great men whom good boys are taught to respect. They are very wise men; and you must listen respectfully to all they say: but even if they should say, which I am sure they never would, 'That cannot exist. That is contrary to nature,' you must wait a little, and see; for perhaps even they may be wrong. Charles Kingsley
wise nature stupid
Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak. She rewards each organism according to its works; and if anything grows too weak or stupid to take care of itself, she gives it its due deserts by letting it die and disappear.
wise wine old-friends
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.
wise men giving
Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all her malice worth a single thought. The wise have not the will, nor fools the power, To stop her headstrong course; within the hour Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life. Charles Churchill
wise home men
There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.
wise country successful
I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you'll be successful, and that's not fair. Charles Barkley
wise imagination fool
Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame. Blaise Pascal
wise fashion men
Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.
wise yesterday achievement
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
wise believe leader
Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it. Bill Hybels
wise song land
The song and the land are one. Bruce Chatwin
wise men giving
Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life. Bruce Barton
wise mother jobs
My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy. Brandon Lee
wise men thinking
At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose. Brandon Sanderson
wise ocean anchors
How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond! Arthur Conan Doyle
wise art pain
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming. Ben Marcus
wise hands grudge
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you. Barbara Johnson
wise odds smoking
Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise. Barbara Kingsolver
wise appreciation selfish
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.