Wise Quotes - Page 96

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Luck never made a man wise.

You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

Through all of our various Christmas traditions, I hope that we are focused first upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Wise men still adore Him.

The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall in no wise go unrewarded: here, by the testimony of an approving conscience; hereafter, by the benediction of our blessed Redeemer, and a brighter inheritance his Father's house.