Wise Quotes

4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors

and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and… — Aimee Bender
MUSIC I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you,… — Conrad Aiken
I like men who have a future and women who have a past. — Oscar Wilde
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there… — Vladimir Nabokov
Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it! — Ayn Rand
Truth is what stands the test of experience. — Albert Einstein
Oh, wise young judge. — Dodie Smith
Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my… — Anne Frank
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to. — William Faulkner
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be… — Abraham Lincoln
The things that make us happy make us wise. — John Crowley
The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one;… — Mark Twain
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I… — Robertson Davies
The wisest men follow their own direction. — Euripides
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught,… — Alexander Pope
What good is power when you're too wise to use it? — Ursula K. Le Guin
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know… — Winston Churchill
A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the… — Stephen Crane
She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away,… — Cecelia Ahern
The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all… — Mitch Albom
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a… — Paulo Coelho
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be. — Wayne Dyer
For even the very wise cannot see all ends. — J.R.R. Tolkien
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty… — Henry David Thoreau

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