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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.
A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!
You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.
Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.
There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.
I wasn't happy with how I left England. I didn't like where my mind was football wise. I felt like football was coming second.
I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.
If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.
As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.
Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get.
Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
Creating Change - The first step to creating any change is deciding what you do want so that you have something to move toward.
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.
Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.
A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?
I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.
When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life.
He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.
A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!
I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.
Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"
In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.