Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it.
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.
Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached.
The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.
Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.
The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
They say a wise man learns from others mistakes, I learn from others success, why pay attention to the mistakes?
I have heeded the lessons of the wise in that when life kicks me in the head, I turn to it my hind section also.
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.
You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.
The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.
May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.
It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
A wise woman keeps her hands firmly in her pockets and does not accidentally unzip anything, including her mouth.
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”
The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!
The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.
Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.
Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.
Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.
The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.
The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.
The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?
I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy.
I always hung around older dudes. I feel like I was more wise and I just had more knowledge of what was going on.
There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.
A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work.
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.