Wise Quotes - Page 146

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

Nature is always wise in every part.

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

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

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

Wine has been to me a firm friend and wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences.

It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

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.

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.

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

I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

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

Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

[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.

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?

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.

Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.