Wise Quotes - Page 56

Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said." Love is the only rational act.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.

Today is the best day to accomplish something.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

You decide every day who you will and will not be. Be bold in your decision but remember, choose wisely.

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

It is not wise for Chinese to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.