Quotes about wise
wise sacrifice self
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live! William Wordsworth
wise mind divine
Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness
wise wisest
And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.
wise brain battle
Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.
wise learning speech
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
wise home heaven
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
wise ignorant
I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant William Saroyan
wise art writing
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.
wise stupid humble
I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.
wise pain grief
Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had! William Morris
wise art reading
As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James
wise neglect deny
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
wise men banking
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard Will Durant
wise gay bisexual
Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know … because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years … but younger black women are prostitutes. Sarah Silverman
wise needs
Even the wise need wisdom. Sara Evans
wise book
The wise are above books. Samuel Daniel
wise ideas history
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
wise hard-times glitter
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. Samuel Lover
wise long decision
So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims. Samuel Gompers
wise wine men
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it. Salvador Dali
wiser grows humans
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser. Wendy Carlos
wise men people
All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise. Vincent Bugliosi
wise fool
The fool inherits, but the wise must get. William Cartwright
wise blessed self
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed. William Congreve
wise cheer grateful
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.
wise procrastination delay
Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
wise rain rivers
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters. William Cowper
wise kings war
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
wise baby kings
But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.
wise wisdom nice
Some people are more nice than wise.
wise unique stupidity
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. Vartan Gregorian
wise eye animal
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees. Ursula K. Le Guin
wise use
What good is power when you're too wise to use it?