The Wise Quotes

A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.

I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

It is wise to agree that all things are one.

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

As never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of the government.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.

Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

The grand instructor, time.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

If we are wise, we never leave school.

Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.

The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

I'd rather be funny than wise.

The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.

I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.

More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to be found in the minds of the reasonable and rational.

I do have some Catholic stuff that is done from the perspective of an ignorant Catholic. But other than that, topic-wise, there's nothing really filthy.

I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well, obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.

An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.