A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To build more human economies in Africa, governments must be far more strategic, wise, and forward-looking in their expenditure and build diverse… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again-… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
With social media, it's another place, another venue for young people to go. I talk about using it wisely, the wise freedom… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to Jesus with one supreme request. They did… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Essentially, the obligation of conservative media is to question what's going on, and say, "Is this something that is the right thing… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
“Do not constantly spend your time complaining about a problem you may be having or may be up against, focus your time… — Victoria addino Copy Share Image
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You're going to make mistakes. You're going to go about some things the wrong way. That said, be wise enough to hit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Compassionate the mountains rise Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes That, having looked on life time out of mind, Know… — DuBose Heyward Copy Share Image
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone…will furnish us with a number of very important uses…If we… — Olaus Murie Copy Share Image
Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is… — Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay Copy Share Image
Swallow your pride and live to the fact that life is a wheel, today it turns towards you and against me then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished,… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Certainly I have no faith in Jehovah, although I think it quite likely that Jesus Christ, as a preacher and a wise… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well,… — Leona Lewis Copy Share Image
“A WORD TO THE WISE Let the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare. Remember, the only… — Piet Hein Copy Share Image
If you learn from the ups and downs. A time shall come there won't be an up. Learn from other people mistakes… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We generally pretend to be something to survive in a society. So the characters I play, I want them to be wholesome… — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it… — Steven Conrad Copy Share Image
There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes… — Roger N. Walsh Copy Share Image
