The Wise Quotes

What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.

Devil, you've got me all in a whirl. I'm wise to your game.

It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

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.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

The pulse of a strong relationship involves a rhythmic movement between giving and taking, talking and listening, valuing the other person and feeling commensurately valued in return.

Let us prepare for that blessed day when He will come again. Let us be as wise as those ancients who watched for His coming.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.

I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!

The things that make us happy make us wise.

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

Enough experience will make you wise.

Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counselor.

Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever innocence you might have once had before you became bitter.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

Nature is always wise in every part.

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

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!

Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.

A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]

In a very real sense, we are the authors of our own lives.

Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.

We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.