Wise Quotes · Page 109

Say I can! More than I can't! Remember, everything can be framed positively.

— Anonymous

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

— Sara Teasdale

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

— Norman Mailer

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

— David Ruggles

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

— Confucius

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

— Norman Vincent Peale

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

— Minna Antrim

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.

— Michael Showalter

You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever.…

— Harry Turtledove

When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing…

— Maya Angelou

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into…

— Chanakya

“If you are nothing else in this life, be wise, be compassionate, and be strong because those three are everything”

— Kristen Ashley

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra’s…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

We need to redefine "smart" when talking about things Obama does, 'cause in my world he doesn't do smart things. He doesn't…

— Rush Limbaugh

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all…

— Malcolm De Chazal

By looking at a person's features, clothing, and speech, even Confucius would not be able to say what sort of a person…

— Han Fei

“Emotional predictive profiling may help identify contingent fissures in the stature of endangered relationships. Still and all, it might be wise to…

— Erik Pevernagie

It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But…

— Charlie Munger

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time…

— Anonymous

A militia law, requiring all men, or with very few exceptions besides cases of conscience, to be provided with arms and ammunition...…

— John Adams

A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he…

— Chanakya

The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They…

— Laozi

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

— Hosea Ballou

Make-up wise Charlotte Tilbury, Estee Lauder, and Bobbi Brown are my favourites.

— Vogue Williams

“It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Every time a man cowers, he loses his inner peace, shrinks before himself and magnifies the oppressor.”

— Augusto Branco

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

— Alexander Pope

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading: Henny Youngman. He was a wise man who invented beer

— Plato

[The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“It's never too late to be wise. Find someone who makes your feel like you're coming home.”

— Yrsa Daley-Ward

A woman is a flower vase of beauty and fragrance. So smell her gently, do not wrestle with her!.

— Anas

I don't celebrate birthdays much, except for decade-wise. It's not a really big thing.

— John Larroquette

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

— Albert Einstein

Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?

— Cary Grant

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

— Euripides

The people who accept criticism are the ones who are genuinely interested in self improvement.

— Babloo

Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

— Laozi