In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Masquerading as a man with a reason, my charade is the event of the season. And if I claim to be a… — Kansas 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
“Talk is free,” said Odd, “but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.” It was something his father used to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There are two apples, one is green and the other is red. Which apple would the wise man choose? The answer is:… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
A wise man once said: Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. Make it a great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A wise man once told me, love is a precious object, must not be given to people who do not know how… — Lockedupoet Copy Share Image
“Contrary to Expectation. A wise man, the wonder of his age, taught his disciples from a seemingly inexhaustible store of wisdom. He… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me. — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“After relating these things concerning John, he makes mention of our Saviour in the same work, in the following words: And there… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
