It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value… — Michael A. Stackpole Copy Share Image
History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling… — John Stuart Mill 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
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment… — Douglas R. Oberhelman Copy Share Image
I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
There's a lot of kids' shows that are really popular ratings-wise, but they don't sell a lot of stuff. A character on… — Tom Kenny Copy Share Image
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“Least said, soonest mended," Toby quipped, quoting a saying Jess often used.” — Jean Little Copy Share Image
“It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool. — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,—… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. — Joseph Collins Copy Share Image
It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and… — Syncletica of Alexandria Copy Share Image
As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?' — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm strong cause I know my weaknesses. I'm alive because I'm a fighter. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise,… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image