Wise Quotes · Page 84

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

— Plutarch

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

— Anonymous

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.

— Bill Murray

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

— Hallie Ephron

Never try to sell at the top. It isn't wise. Sell after a reaction if there is no rally.

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.

— William Shakespeare

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

— Baltasar Gracian

“In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an…

— A. A. Gill

Do not be someone looking for [insert]. Be [insert] looking for someone. Suggestions for [insert]: —love —friendship —understanding —appreciation —tolerance —a helping…

— Robert Breault

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you…

— Anne Sexton

“Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.”

— Shannon L. Alder

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is…

— Laozi

I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page.…

— Rudolfo Anaya

I always hung around older dudes. I feel like I was more wise and I just had more knowledge of what was…

— Future

Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and…

— Rumi

Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from…

— Socrates

I don't try to approach things any differently, songwriting-wise, regardless of what I'm doing. I try to write whatever the best thing…

— Chris Stapleton

Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read…

— Neil Gaiman

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain…

— Anne Fortier

I was as alone as a person can be. I could not turn to a friend, for nobody wished to befriend me.…

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective…

— D. Patrick Miller

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes.…

— Thomas Frank

Listen to what you are taught. Be wise; do not neglect it. ~Prov.8:33

— Anonymous

Nothing drives your adversaries more insane than seeing a fresh smile on your face.

— Senoraroy

The ignorant man doesn't praise the wise as the owl doesn't praise the light.

— Vikrant Parsai

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

— Henry David Thoreau

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

— Desiderius Erasmus

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

— Bob Dylan

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

— Brigham Young

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

— John Webster

The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The difference between a boy and a man is a wise choice.

— Carol Coopersmith

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

— Ovid

Life is never what we imagine it is. Great illusions are so powerful, when we want them to be true

— Senoraroy

“Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.”

— Idries Shah

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

— James Altucher

“Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.”

— James Holman

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

— Joseph Collins