There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better.… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful… — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained -… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A lot of close friends and family members have got married through online dating. I don't think it would be wise for… — Daisy Lowe Copy Share Image
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is… — Moliere Copy Share Image
My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the… — Maria McCann Copy Share Image
We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
When you develop the ability to listen to anything without losing your temper or self-confidence, it means you have become EDUCATED. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Most things, I find, are temporary and pass into distant memory with the next great event. But this commentary drew blood to… — Nev March Copy Share Image
NOT all fingers are of same LENGTH, but when they are BENT, all stand in EQUAL length. LIFE becomes easy when we… — Babloo Copy Share Image
A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
They say a wise man learns from others mistakes, I learn from others success, why pay attention to the mistakes? — Behdad Sami Copy Share Image
An intelligent mind can overthink almost everything but a wise mind only thinks about what is needed to be thought. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
The thing about the BBC is I've grown up with it. It's 'Hancock,' Leonard Rossiter, Morecambe & Wise, 'Blackadder,' 'Fawlty Towers'... I… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write… — Ian Jack Copy Share Image
If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying,… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
“The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
