Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best;… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
Stories have always been incredibly comforting and can help illuminate things that are hard to understand other wise. — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
But the struggle makes you stronger, and the change makes you wise and happiness has it's own way of taken its sweet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton]… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“If I were wise, I shouldn't tell you. But I won't be wise, Harry, not for this time. I'll be just the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
“Whether we realize it or not, we are all living out the lives fated for us, either willingly or reluctantly. Zeno illustrated… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Immature people want to win an argument, even at the cost of relationship. Mature people opt to loose an argument in order… — Babloo Copy Share Image
Five Live' was keen for me to stop doing a weekly show on Xfm. I worked there for two and a half… — Richard Bacon Copy Share Image
For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“A wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more… — Edward Hersey Richards Copy Share Image
Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying,… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write… — Ian Jack Copy Share Image
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The thing about the BBC is I've grown up with it. It's 'Hancock,' Leonard Rossiter, Morecambe & Wise, 'Blackadder,' 'Fawlty Towers'... I… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
“Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
![“I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton] Friedmans insight is that a market limits the power that others have over us; conversely, limiting the power that others have over us allows us to have markets. Friedman…” quote by Arnold Kling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/arnold-kling-32482_better-job_i-call-this-the-fundamental-problem-of-p_1424862.jpg)
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