Wise Quotes · Page 64

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea…

— William Shakespeare

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough.…

— Ginuwine

If you're to succeed at any endeavor, the first and most important person you must convince is yourself. Success comes not from…

— Ralph Marston

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ…

— Augustus William Hare

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of…

— William Hazlitt

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

— Robert Burns

I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I…

— Jim Butcher

In Britain, there's kids who grew up in London and then kids who didn't. You become quite street wise. It's such a…

— Ben Lloyd-Hughes

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

— Brian Johnson

No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.

— Robert Herrick

I love being stupid....I get to see the wiser ones....

— Rizzi Vicci

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

— Alexander Pope

Life doesn't come with a manual, but it brings you choices in front of you, choose wisely.

— Byaombe Salome

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

— Tom Stoppard

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

— John Webster

Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my…

— Harpo Marx

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

— George Herbert

In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about…

— Eric Maisel

One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best…

— Kevin Smith

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They…

— Jay Leno

ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are…

— Milton Steinberg

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

— Duke Ellington

There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner…

— Elizabeth I