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I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.

If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.

It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.