Wise Quotes

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Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool. — Alma Guillermoprieto
During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda… — Questlove
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. — Pierre Charron
You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of… — Malcolm De Chazal
The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart. — Norman Lear
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible for… — Algernon Sidney
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet. — E. V. Lucas
A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty… — Barry Hughart
Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from… — Hubert H. Humphrey
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he… — Helen Rowland
Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise. — Ed Greenwood
Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorioâ€™s stories, written from the underbelly of the… — Unknown Author
Every wise man lives in an observatory. — Augustus William Hare
I'm wise to be a good steward, but I'll never be my own rescuer. The worth thing you can do with fear and anxiety is… — Matt Chandler
Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money. That may be a wise crack, but I doubt it. — Morrie Ryskind
A child's death is really of less value than an adult's. I mean, what could you really accomplish in a year? Not much, and that's… — Zach Braff
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton
That two bodies press convulsively together, man and woman, he fertilizing her, he giving her a budding life, or he planting a seed, a seed… — Unknown Author
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones. — Josh Billings

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