Wise Quotes
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
E. W. Howe
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
Solomon Burke
Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.
Roberto Duran
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
Thomas More
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
Albert Bushnell Hart
It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
Michael Crapo
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Sun Tzu
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
Joan Rivers
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Pindar
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Demosthenes
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph Addison
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.
Stan Kenton
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.
Maria Monk
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Calvin Trillin