I was the kid in the class who was looking for the angles to question things or make wise-ass remarks, not knowing… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
The army slew a thousand and showed little pity The king ordered fealty from the conquered city The prince charmed its people… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools. — David C. Stark Copy Share Image
The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics,… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it,… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
Sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, oh my god, I'm never going to work… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
All you do is you go back to the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London, and it feels like you're in… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Wise girls kiss but never love Listen but never believe And leave befor they are left — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
Its very well proved that a strong will power and determination can take human to moon and above, but still some of… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most people, when it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Hope is not the basis for policy. Wise policymakers analyze major issues such as immigration carefully and look at facts and probabilities… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is… — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies! — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
