Wisely Quotes
498 quotes by 413 authors
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Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
— Julia Cameron
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
— Oscar Wilde
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I wisely started with a map.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Yo, dumbass. What do you think she’d be doing with them? Giving them ballet lessons? (Darling) Tell me again why I can’t kill him? (Hauk)…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You'll need to do a better job, Annabelle. No more dates like the first one tonight." "Agreed. And no more making me sit through your…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can…
— Benjamin Hoff
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This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on…
— William Shakespeare
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And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I don't have that many days left," he said as we sat together in the library. "Why would I want to spend them on matters…
— Jacqueline Kelly
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Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.
— Heather Brewer
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I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught…
— William Shakespeare
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And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see',…
— William Shakespeare
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Well. We’ll just have to hope that this wasn’t a loup-garou, I guess.†“If it was a louper, you’d know,†Bob said wisely. “In the…
— Jim Butcher
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And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.
— John Steinbeck
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Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme;…
— William Shakespeare
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Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the…
— P.D. James
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I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my…
— Mindy Kaling
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The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the…
— Greg Behrendt
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In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably…
— Jonathan Stroud
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413 authors contributed a total of 498 Wisely Quotes, led by these top contributors: